Illegal Immigrants: Keep Them Here If It Costs Us Less
At this point in time, there are nearly 11.3 million illegal immigrants living in the United States (“The Costs of Mass Deportation”). These are people who have crossed the border from Mexico in order to find a better life in the United States. At least that is the case for the majority of them. Many people are reasonably opposed to this illegal act of crossing the border. Some of whom wish to deport all of them back to where they came from. The United States cannot send all Illegal Immigrants back as that would be devastating for them, costly for us and quite possibly alter our political representation as a country.
Most people will argue that the illegal immigrants are doing us more harm than good. Looking at the statistics alone, one could easily prove this argument wrong. According to a report done for the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000, illegal immigrants maintain low crime rates. (“Immigration Myths and Facts” 1). This is because if they are caught in any criminal act, their chances of being deported would be much more likely. Of course there are some who come here and cause issues, but to say that applies to the …show more content…
Illegal aliens have created a life in the United States for which their families depend on. The cost for mass deportation is nothing to be taken lightly. The deportation itself would ruin the country’s representation as a land of opportunity. As the Statue of Liberty itself states "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the go3lden door!" Everyone in the United States is an immigrant, whether they came here before or after the laws of the land were
At this point in time, there are nearly 11.3 million illegal immigrants living in the United States (“The Costs of Mass Deportation”). These are people who have crossed the border from Mexico in order to find a better life in the United States. At least that is the case for the majority of them. Many people are reasonably opposed to this illegal act of crossing the border. Some of whom wish to deport all of them back to where they came from. The United States cannot send all Illegal Immigrants back as that would be devastating for them, costly for us and quite possibly alter our political representation as a country.
Most people will argue that the illegal immigrants are doing us more harm than good. Looking at the statistics alone, one could easily prove this argument wrong. According to a report done for the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000, illegal immigrants maintain low crime rates. (“Immigration Myths and Facts” 1). This is because if they are caught in any criminal act, their chances of being deported would be much more likely. Of course there are some who come here and cause issues, but to say that applies to the …show more content…
Illegal aliens have created a life in the United States for which their families depend on. The cost for mass deportation is nothing to be taken lightly. The deportation itself would ruin the country’s representation as a land of opportunity. As the Statue of Liberty itself states "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the go3lden door!" Everyone in the United States is an immigrant, whether they came here before or after the laws of the land were