War on the Home Front

Paper Summary:

The paper details how illegal immigrants cost legal taxpayers billions of dollars a year. The paper presents the Republican and Democratic views on illegal immigration and discusses how an unsecured border could allow another terrorist attack. The paper includes personal stories of how the issue of illegal immigration impacts individuals. The paper strongly contends that since the problem of illegal immigration has been overlooked and avoided for years, the situation is becoming dire with potentially catastrophic consequences.

From the Paper:

"What would you do with $1.3 billion? You could buy 419,490 widescreen HDTV's. How about 5,002 new 2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti's? Or perhaps you could use that obscene amount that Arizona alone spent on illegal immigrant's education, healthcare, and incarceration fees to hire 38,229 new border patrol agents to reinforce a broken and battered border. Or consider California taxpayers who, in contrast, spent $10 billion on illegal immigrant fees. That's a whopping 3,226,847 HDTV's, 38,483 of those Ferrari's, or 294,074 new border patrol agents. There were around 1.1 million border arrests last year with 51%, or 516,109 in Arizona. The reason our state has the largest influx of illegal immigrants is because Arizona has lagged behind the advancements made along the borders in California and Texas. They have stepped up measures to put an end to this invasion, which has channeled this steady stream of aliens into Arizona's open borders. Border control is like a balloon: squeeze one area and another area expands. Arizona needs to squeeze back. There are now an estimated 34 million immigrants in the United States, with about a third of them, 11 million, being illegal."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Magnusson, Paul, and Ben Elguin. "Go Back Where You Came From." Business Week. 4 July 2005: 86-87. Mas-Ultra- School Edition. EBSCO host. Westwood High School Library, Mesa, AZ., 11 November 2005. <http://web7.epnet.com >.
• Anderson, Terry. "Effects of Immigration on U.S. Workers." FDCH Congressional Testimony. 30 October 2003. MAS-Ultra- School Edition. EBSCO host. Westwood High School Library, Mesa, AZ., 11 November 2005. <http://web7.epnet.com >
• Roosevelt, Margot. "Border War in Arizona." Time Canada. 11 October 2004. MAS-Ultra- School Edition. EBSCO host. Westwood High School Library, Mesa, AZ., <http://web7.epnet.com >
• Jeffrey, Terence. "You're Suing Los Angles." Human Events. 19 May 2003. MAS-Ultra- School Edition. EBSCO host. Westwood High School Library, Mesa, AZ. 4 November 2005. < http://web7.epnet.com >
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