Immigration Immigration
What is immigration? How will it affect us around the world? What location is this issue a problem? How does it affect us in the United States?
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Introduction How does this immigration thing work, does it affect me?
But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor. Janet Napolitano
What is the issue? In 2005 estimates show that illegal immigrants make up 3.3 of the total 28 percent of immigrants in the United States. But here is where the issue comes to play 55 percent of the immigrants are on welfare, not just the legal immigrants but the illegal immigrants also. This has many American ticked off because their taxes is helping someone who is not even legally immigrated to the United States. So why are so many of them coming into the United States? The immigrants see many opportunities here and they take a hold of all the opportunities. Source: Center for Immigration Studies
Does Immigration Happen Around The World?
Did you know? "Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
$1117 - The average amount you and your family paid in taxes this year to support illegal immigrants. $52 Billion - The cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants. This is by far the single largest cost to the American taxpayer. $2,700 - The average dollar amount a single illegal household costs the US federal government. Half of 38.5 million born population in the United States, 50.0 percent were female.
What’s so great about America?
History In 1776, Britain broke away and was recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Over a span of more than five decades, the economy has achieved steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.
Statistics
Over half of the US population will be living in poverty before the age of 65. A study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year
Location: North America, Capital: Washington, D.C. Population: 313,232,044 Size: total: 9,826,675 sq km - land: 9,161,966 sq km - water: 664,709 sq km Languages: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) Child mortality rate: Total: 6.06 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy: total population: 78.37 years Literacy rate: Definition: age 15 and over can read and write Religions: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% Doctor to patient ratio: 185/1 Population living on less than $2/day: 13%
Can immigration help or hurt your life?
Current Situation There is an estimated amount of 12 million illegal immigrants that are here in the United States. Some of this is due to human trafficking, illegal drug dealing scandals, and some are trying to come to America for financial reasons. Some of these illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans because these aliens will work for such low wages. Immigration can also lead to gangs and the crime rate in the United States to increase. Some fugitives flee from Mexico to escape being punished for a crime. Even though this occurs some Americans will traffic others in America illegally to do work for them with outrageous conditions and pay these people next to nothing wages. Sometimes entire families including teens and children are worked to the bone like adults with the same low pay.
Case Study With this being said there needs to be a solution to this problem. Increasing the border security won’t do anything because that has been done and the same results came about. So I think becoming a registered U.S. citizen should be an easier process. This way we would at least know who is in America. Next, I feel as if there should be undercover agents in areas of other countries that have large numbers of illegal immigrants in America. This could cut back the number of illegal immigrants and also make the illegal immigrants think twice about sneaking into America.
Solution Wal-Mart was sued for having illegal immigrants working at the store as janitors. This is important because Wal-Mart had to pay 11 million dollars to have the charges dropped against their company. This was a record fine in civil immigration cases. This just goes to show you that immigration is real and isn’t a myth.
Are you affected by immigration?
Current Situation:
What should the government be doing?
Over the years, illegal immigration has risen. Each year the illegal immigrants count has gone up. In America there is a number between 12 – 20 million illegal immigrants. The issue is not that they are in America using our resources, but it is that they are using our resources without contributing to anything. Illegal immigrants use our hospitals and schools without paying taxes or having health insurance. The current problem is not sharing, but instead equal distribution. It is not fair for them to receive things that they do not pay for, and infringe on legal citizens who do.
To help slow down and eventually stop illegal immigration the government needs to start cracking down more on the illegal immigrants coming into America. The government needs to find ways that forces them to contribute. To start, the government can monitor the cheap labor given to illegal immigrants and track down the companies that are doing it. If this was to happen, for an illegal immigrant to find work they would have to be documented. Another thing the government could implement is sales tax. In Tennessee there is no state income tax, so that means an illegal immigrant there pays the same taxes as a citizen. If this was done in every state they would contribute as much to the system as they take out.
Case Study On September 30, 2010 gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman revealed that her former maid Nicandra Diaz Santillan use fraudulent documents to obtain employment. On both different documents she list different names. On her social security card, Diaz uses the name Nicandra Santillan. On the I-9 form, Nicky is listed as a nickname and Diaz as her maiden name and middle initial. Diaz signed the form saying that she is knowledgeable of imprisonment if there was any false information. She also attested she was a Lawful Permanent Resident and entered a false ‘alien’ record as proof. Whitman was accused by the maid and her attorney of knowingly employing an illegal immigrant. This case shows that many illegal immigrants are not undocumented, but instead come to America with false documents.
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