Illegal Immigrants

Paper Summary:

The paper argues that America should establish a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as bolster efforts to track down those who are in America illegally. The paper contends that illegal immigrants divert social services away from legitimate American citizens, hurt domestic businesses and retailers and increase crime rates.

From the Paper:

"Establishing a border fence and aggressively tracking down illegal immigrants will benefit America, first and foremost, because it will eliminate illegal arrivals who are committing crimes on American soil. In an online article, Heather MacDonald writes that the city of Los Angeles has been recently plagued by a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang whose chief members were previously deported for a host of violent crimes. Tragically, despite their brutal track record, members of that gang have once again slipped through the "cracks" along the Southern United States border and are again terrorizing sections of Los Angeles. Making the situation all the worse is the fact that, at least as of late 2004, the City of Los Angeles was actually enforcing a ban against police efforts to enforce immigration law (para.1-2). MacDonald's provocative expose also reveals that 95 percent of outstanding warrants for homicide involve illegal immigrants and as many as two-thirds of fugitive felony warrants are for illegals who should have been previously deported."

Sample of Sources Used:

• MacDonald, Heather. "The Illegal Alien Crime Wave." City Journal. 2004. The Manhattan Institute. 6 Oct. 2006 <http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html>
• Ohlemacher, Stephen. "Number of Illegal Immigrants Hits 12M." BREITBART.COM. 7 Mar. 2006. BREITBART.COM, LLC. 6 Oct. 2006 <http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/07/D8G6U2KO8.html>
• "Remittances and Transfers: Huge Sums at Stake." Extremis.tv. n.d. Macumba International. 6 Oct. 2006 <http://www.extremis.tv/html/index.php?vBloc=Themes&vTypeDOC=D&vLangue=A&vFolder=08partir/17clandestin&CodeSCT=1126>
• "The Burdens of Illegal Immigration." N.d. University of Texas. 6 Oct. 2006 <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/spring/imm/tim.html>

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