The Pros And Cons Of Undocumented Children

Imagine yourself living in a house with your family, your fiancé, or by yourself. You work really hard to pay off your bills and to support everyone. Then one day, while you’re sitting on your couch relaxing, you look outside your window and see six runaway immigrant children. They knock on your door and desperately beg you to keep them as a refugee. Would your weekly savings be enough to support six or more people, and is your house or apartment large enough to fit them? Would you even want to accept them? Thousands of undocumented children are entering the United States illegally and alone. However, this act can cause the U.S. to be overpopulated and cost the country a tremendous amount of money; Undocumented children fleeing violence and …show more content…
The U.S. has a very limited amount of space. No one likes to be up on one another; everyone wants to have their own space bubble. There are many other supporters around the world that would kindly accept them. According to the article, Illegal Immigration Dilemma: Are Migrant Children Refugees or Criminals? by Patrick Jonson, it stated, “The massive border breach by ‘unaccompanied alien children’ has been building since 2012, going from 6,560 in fiscal year 2011 to an estimated 90,000 this year, and a possible 150,000 in 2015” (paragraph 5). If this many numerous amount of unaccompanied children are rapidly entering the United Sates, this limits personal freedoms and the health and survival of other species. Conflicts between people of different ethnicity will increase. Being employed would be difficult to obtain. Also, air pollution and water pollution will definitely increase and create a total disaster for the environment. So instead of having a smile on our faces, we would have that smile upside down. The boosting of undocumented children are diminishing our resources and causing uplift to