Why The Dream Act Failed

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Immigration has been a topic that no one as seem to be able to control or tame, We have tried for over 200 years to make a plan or program that could control immigration. The latest attempt to tame immigration was in 1986, and it was called “The Dream Act”. This acted failed for many reasons in my point of view, but in the point of Brad Plumer he sees that The Dream Acted failed by within the act itself. Brad believes that immigrants had taken advantage of you act and found loops in the dream act and used them to their advatage. Brad Plumer (Why the Dream Act Failed?); ¨The dream act of 1986 failed because the system was not constant and had multiply loops holes. With these loopholes immigrants took advatage and used this in their to want.¨ …show more content…
This is hurting our economy because these immigrants need resources, jobs, houses, water, and other needs. We have about 50,000,000 homeless U.S.A according to census in 2010. If were to cut the amount of immigrants let into the U.S we could lower the number of our own people out on the streets, but instead we are worried about people from other countries that are taking up citizens resource and putting them on the streets. Immigrants also are taking our jobs, if we are letting 37 thousand immigrants per a year thats 37 Thousand jobs that go to people that aren't even one of our own or from our own country, we could use these jobs and lower our unemployment rate and take people off the streets. Morgan Taylor has seen this first hand when he worked for the government in a department that did background checks on immigrants and let them in or refused t o let them into the U.S.A. Morgan Taylor says immigration is hurting economy every day… As they use up or reasons like coal or trees. Morgan Taylor; “Immigration is abusing our economy starting at our resources, The most common or popular resource used up by Immigrants is coal, followed by wood. (Diagram on the website) shows that 37% of US citizens use our natural coal, with 5% of illegals immigrants using our coal, when about 58% of our coal is used by …show more content…
This sounds like long shot, but in 2016, a new mall in Minnesota was being constructed and planned to be built the owner or buyer wasa immigrant from Europe, but in order to do so the owner had to clear out a patch of forest . This size of the whole mall and parking lot with other mini business was 2.5square miles, according to Samantha Rogen and her website (Immigrants and their effect on the environment). So 2.5 square miles of trees and wildlife gone for nothing, because the mall went bankrupt 1.5 years later. Immigrants hurt our environment awells. 12% of immigrants start up business, and 9 % of the 12 need to clear out wildlife or forest in order to create a business. Samantha Rogan; “12% of immigrants turn out to start business, but 9% out of 12% need to have a building constructed in order to start up their business. And to do this the constructor works have to clear grounds and wildlife.” 9% of 37,000 is 3,330 immigrants that clear wildlife just for business. Which 3% of the business go bankrupt according to Samantha

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