Anybody who has watched the news lately has heard about the highly talked about and debatable topic of illegal immigration. Many Americans, as well as myself believe that we should not allow Illegal Immigration. The rate of crime, gangs, drug trafficking and sex trafficking have increased. The middle class are losing jobs to illegal immigrants because they are willing to work for less. State systems are going bankrupt over providing social services to these people and hospitals are never seeing a dime due to the “free health care” they have to provide. Our economy isn’t benefiting either. Illegal Immigrants hardly have to pay taxes, if any, and their money isn’t being spent here in America. It is going back and being used in their home country. While some people will argue that Illegal Immigration has had a positive effect on our country, research shows that indeed it is hurting us and negatively affecting our country. Illegal immigration has been a huge issue in the United States for a long time. Although it seems as if it has just become an issue in the past twenty or so years, illegal immigration dates back all
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With the loss of work and the threat of deportation, just about a million Mexicans left the United States between 1929 to 1939. That didn’t account for the other ethnic groups from other countries that were forced to leave America as well. In 1940 due to the war, America established that “Braceros Program.” The program allowed foreigners to work during the harvest season due to the labor shortage of Americans fighting in the war. The foreigners were supposed to go back to their country after their jobs were done, but many stayed or came back illegally to work for the same employer. Employers welcomed these immigrants back because of their cheap labor. Over the next few decades Illegal Immigration went from the thousands to millions. There were not enough people to control the
With the loss of work and the threat of deportation, just about a million Mexicans left the United States between 1929 to 1939. That didn’t account for the other ethnic groups from other countries that were forced to leave America as well. In 1940 due to the war, America established that “Braceros Program.” The program allowed foreigners to work during the harvest season due to the labor shortage of Americans fighting in the war. The foreigners were supposed to go back to their country after their jobs were done, but many stayed or came back illegally to work for the same employer. Employers welcomed these immigrants back because of their cheap labor. Over the next few decades Illegal Immigration went from the thousands to millions. There were not enough people to control the