America
was once built on immigration but now it experiences a growing and adapting
issue of which the solution changes with each administration.
Illegal aliens include Mexicans and Central Americans who
both cross the US border, individuals that cross the Canadian border and
individuals from all over the world that came here with visas and remained
illegally after they expired. There are many problems associated with these
workers, such a s but not limited to taking jobs, increasing already increased
population, stressing current infrastructure,
These workers are tempting to any greedy employer with
little regard for labor laws. They will accept low pay and poor working
condition in exchange for money. The problem with this is although both the
worker and the employee are breaking the law if the illegal citizens didn’t
exist those companies would be forced to hire American workers who’s income is
subject to tax.
Some argue that Americans wouldn’t do those ‘dirty’ jobs
that somehow the average American is so obnoxious that they would refuse to
ever work as a maid or landscaper when really they were the ones doing it
before the massive influx of illegal aliens. Some also argue that illegal aliens
do pay taxes…when they purchase thing however the significant portion of taxes
which one normally gets deducted from a paycheck are not applicable to those
individuals.
For obvious reasons of lack of reporting the number of
illegal aliens in the country can only be roughly estimated and is currently
estimated at around 12 million with about 8 million of those in the workforce.
Legally, temporary protected status is a legal status that
was originally designed give illegal aliens temporary legal status. This was
only granted if they had fleed from their home country and would experience
unusual hardship upon returning home due to civil strife or natural disaster.
However since it’s induction in 1990 it’s been tossed back and forth with each
presidency.
The Obama administration made four moves that further
weakened the immigration enforcement issue. One being the suspending worksite
investigations to search for illegal aliens, limiting the scope of state and
local authorities in regards to apprehending illegal aliens, limiting most
search and seizure of illegal aliens to only those deemed a danger to society
and consideration of applying massive case by case amnesty.
The approximate cost of incarcerating illegal aliens is
about 1.6 billion dollars per year. Cost to the justice system of about 8 billion
and cost to state and local government of about 9 billion. In addition
percentages vary by state but California see the highest number of illegal
criminals constituting 12% of their jail population.
In addition the increase in population has an impact on the
environment with the associated increase in consumerism along with the stress
on infrastructure in general (ie: crowded street and traffic.)
In my opinion new measure must be taken to increase border
security along with strengthening immigration enforcement in addition to removing any implementations that weaken immigration enforcement.
http://www.fairus.org/issue/criminal-aliens
1 comment:
Immigration- Commentary
Amanda's post on Nov. 30th on "Immigration", is a very substantial topic to address. Amanda address's the concerns by Congress, in her statistics shows how much money is being wasted on illegal aliens due to their insufficient lack of paying taxes. Which all Americans are subject to pay, especially everyone with a social security card or drivers license. The IRS will eventually come for you, but if your not legal, then their is no way of tracking these "illegal aliens , and thanks to Obama the laws were weakened.
I agree with Amanda, in that Congress needs to take into action before it becomes an issue. It seems that the Government always waits around and sits until their is an issue or problem that results in lives lost, or if it effects the Governments pocket book. For example after 9/11/2001, the Patriot Act was passed that allows the government to interact and intervene in our privacy without a search warrant. I completely agree with Amanda in "new measure must be taken to increase border security along with strengthening immigration enforcement in addition to removing any implementations that weaken immigration enforcement." Lets do something about the issue before it escalates into something that will hurt the economy or violate more of American citizen rights. No tax paying American should have to suffer due to a lack of ignorance of Congress or the Obama Administration it does effect us some way, we will be seeing great changes in the next few years that will emphasize on immigration.
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