Immigration Problem With Too Many Immigrants In

The U.S Essay, Research Paper

Immigration: Problem with Too Many Immigrants in the U.S

Immigration is a major problem facing the U.S. today. Hundreds of

thousands of immigrants flock to this country every year. Some legally, others

illegally. Some are escaping from religious and political oppression while

others come to seek out the “American Dream”. Either way they are causing

nationwide problems. Non-English speaking workers take jobs away from American

people because they will work for cheaper wages. Illegal immigrants receive

welfare and health care and the money to fund this comes straight from us, the

citizens of the United States. Some limitations have to be put on the number of

immigrants allowed each year and much stricter border patrols must be installed.

Harsher punishments and frequent checks are necessary to keep corporations from

hiring illegal aliens. We need to do something about this problem before its to

late.

The number of legal immigrants should definitely be lowered to a much

more reasonable number. Right now, an average of over 600,000 legal immigrants

are granted access to the country. I believe this number should be cut in half.

We need to focus on problems facing American citizens, such as poverty, AIDS,

cancer, and unemployment. We don’t need 300,00 more people to deal with, we have

enough problems with the currents population.

I don’t think certain ethnic groups should be give preference over

another group but I think educated workers who can speak English should be

granted passage before a poor worker who is coming over here to pick lettuce for

minimum wage. The educated people are the immigrants that will cause this

country to flourish and they are the ones that should be encouraged to migrate

to the U.S.

With some many problems facing the U.S. now, we need to worry about

ourselves and try to get ourselves on track before we can worry about saving the

world. If we can get our economy going and take care of poverty in our cities,

then we can begin to help out the countries of the world. I’m not saying that we

should completely cut them off, the poorer places should receive some financial

aid, but the majority of our problems lie inside our borders and those are the

ones we should be most concerned about.

Illegal immigrants are sucking up hardworking American taxpayer’s money.

They are gaining benefits like welfare, public education and health care and the

money that funds those benefits comes straight from our wallets. These people

are not tax payers and our not helping to deal with American problems.

One of the main reasons that we have such a problem with illegal

immigrants is because companies continue to hire them. The U.S. government needs

to crack down on these companies to make sure that they are not putting these

people to work. After watching news clippings on how easy it is to “sneak”

across the border, its no wonder we have so many illegal aliens living in the

U.S. It is not the fault of the border patrol guards, but the fault of the U.S.

government for one, not having a enough help, and two, not enough barriers.

People can basically walk over the U.S./Mexican border without being seen or

caught. If they are caught, they usually return the next day. I

Another privilege that should be taken away from illegal aliens is

automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. If the kids are not citizens

then they will not be eligible to attend our already over crowded public schools

and further discourage people from coming over.

People take sneaking over the boarder as a joke. They can laugh about

being caught because nothing can be done and since there are so few guards there

is little risk of getting caught. By increasing border guards, cracking down on

phony passports and pleas for political asylum in our airports we can stop

illegal immigrants from coming over and receiving benefits that they do not

deserve. Once we have that problem taken care of we can work on setting up fair

legal immigration policies.