Role Of Illegal Immigrants In The United States

We need to think about implementing stricter laws with regards to who as access to the programs intended to citizens. If the Immigration Act of 1917 or 1924 worked back then, why then will it not work today? Another point to think about is that if we had stricter immigration laws the illegal immigrants would not be taking over jobs that legal citizens could be fulfilling. Our debt of taking care of them would not be through the ceiling. If Mexicans or any other illegal aliens were to enter legally we would be able to track and keep up with all of them. This would help keep the U.S. safer from crime and disease potentially brought into the US from illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 500 illegal immigrants sneak into the United States on any given …show more content…
Which means we have nearly 11,000,000,000 illegal aliens in the United States. Deportation is not up for discussion any long, but the only option we have in-order to deal with this pestilence. Our primary responsibility is to provide for the safety and security of its citizens and yet, for reasons I cannot begin to understand, the members of the Senate who voted for S. 2611 are seemingly ignorant to the lessons that the unsuccessful amnesty of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) should have taught us. That piece of legislation led to the greatest arrivals of illegal immigrants in the history of our nation. Fraud and a lack of integrity of the immigration system not only flooded our nation with illegal immigrants who ran our borders, hoping that what had been promoted as a "one time" amnesty would be repeated, but it also enabled a number of terrorists and many criminals to enter the United States and then entrenched themselves in the United