Stop Illegal Immigration Draft#1 Shihua Huang

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Shihua Huang

Marina Sapozhnikov

English 3001, section 2

18 February 2010

OCE #2 First Draft

Illegal immigration problems

I think America is a freedom place where actual Americans pursue their hope

and dream but not a taking for free place where people do what want without

passports or without obeying to the laws. While I agree that illegal immigrants should

be deported from Americas, the authors of these 3 articles fail to consider that illegal

immigrants give negative economic impact, increase the rate of crime and the

disparity between people who play by the rule to get visas and those who dont

The increase of illegal immigration not only gives burden on resources

costing taxpayers billions of dollars but also rises the unemployment in low degree

position. Since the population of illegal immigration grows rapidly, America needs to

increase the amount of financial expenditure to provide basic service for these low

income people. (According to Federation for American Immigration Reform, the total

cost of health care, education and incarceration of illegal immigrants is $10.5 billion

per year). A large amount of taxpayers money is used for illegal immigrants but there

is no law that immigrants working in America need to pay tax. Therefore, the increase

part of government expenditure benefits the illegal immigrants but hurts American

taxpayers. Whats more, the demanding for cheap labor by some companies in


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America attracts more and more illegal immigrants. The competition brought by

illegal immigrants makes Americans with low degree difficult to find the jobs. If job

market indulges in illegal cheap labor, the taxes of middle class citizens will be

shrinking enormously. Nowadays, there still millions of Americans are hungry, jobless,

lacking of education, homeless, the U.S. government should consider if the money

goes to everyone.

Furthermore, illegal immigrants have brought an increase of crime such

as drug smuggling, theft to American. Its dangerous for millions of undocumented

people living in the country. If these undocumented people commit crimes and then

run back to their countries, how can we find these people and get them punished? For

example, one of my Mexican neighbors was shot by a guy who was also from Mexico.

Fortunately, my Mexican survived in the gunshot. The guy who commits crime didnt

be punished or charged because his family and he packed up and rush back to Mexico

after the gun shot happened. Whats worse, serious criminal network such as

smuggling challenges the security and general safety in public due to the loose policy

against illegal immigration. More supporting system makes illegal immigrants entry

America easier. Smuggling is the behavior of evading tax and causes America loss

revenue. Most smuggling items are drug, alcohol and tobacco therefore smuggling

cause the social problems such as the abuse of drug. So the government should race a

bill against illegal immigration to avoid the criminals expending.

Finally, the central debate of the illegal immigrants is how to balance the

law and the human compassion. While allowing influx of illegal immigrants flood, the


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U.S. government creates unfairness towards legal immigrants who wait in line, obey

to the rule and try to qualify for citizenship. If illegal immigrants cross the border

successfully, the government will give them working visas due to the tolerance or

human compassion. The consequent is more and more illegal immigrants pour into

America by illicit means and those who initially try to enter America will switch to

the nearest way( illegal way). That will put America into chaos and impact society

and economy negatively. The most important thing to be an America is to respect the

law and nation. While I support those get citizenship by extraordinary ability in

business, education, art, etc. I oppose those reach America in illicit ways such as

swimming across the sea, climbing over the mountain and crossing the desert.

In conclusion, America should balance the ethics and law in illegal

immigration problem and protect American future. The U.S. government need to be

aware that getting cheap labor lead to a bunch of economic and social problems and

benefiting one group(illegal immigrants) means hurting another group(legal

immigrants).

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