Illegal immigration
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Illegal immigration is when people without legal permission from a country cross the border and proceed to dwell there. Therefore, illegal immigration is the act of immigrating to a country without having the right to do so.
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This has become a major issue in the United States, because of foreigners living in the U.S. illegally. Many illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and but still use services, such as health care and schools. It is estimated that over 21 million illegal immigrants live in the United States.[1] However, many are afraid to use available services, such as domestic violence shelters, out of fear of deportation. Many illegals cannot speak English. Illegal immigrations is defended, saying that they are simply coming to find work and are a valuable part of the US labor force. Some come illegally to escape political oppression, as legal channels are not open to them.[2][3][4] Marriage to a U.S. citizen does not automatically gain one citizenship. When Army Spc. Alex Jimenez was captured by terrorists in Iraq, his wife was almost deported by the government. Strong public opinion allowed her to stay.[5]
Mexico is the source of the vast majority of illegal immigrants to the United States, who cross the border mostly through the desert southwest or less often by swimming across the Rio Grande. The United States receives constant criticism from the Mexican government for its efforts to curb illegal immigration. Ironically, one of Mexico's harshest criticisms was a plan by the United States to make illegal immigration a felony offense, which would impose harsher penalties on illegal Mexican immigrants. Mexico's own laws make illegal immigration a felony offense in that country.[2][3]
Many Mexicans have to come to the United States to work because for many years the Mexican government was under the control of the socialist Institutional Revolutionary Party (called PRI from its initials in Spanish), which limited economic opportunity and growth. Many Mexicans will return to Mexico after they have made some money because they do not like certain aspects of American culture, such as the homosexual agenda, the abortion industry and teenage promiscuity. Mexican families sometimes return home just before their children reach puberty. Many Mexicans workers send money to their families remaining in Mexico, which is the second largest source of foreign income, after crude oil sales. It represents as much as 2.5 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product [6]
As the Bible exhorts people to be compassionate towards illegal immigrants (Exodus 23:9 and Leviticus 19:34), and as more Americans are Christian than any other religion, many Americans feel compelled by their religion to show compassion and caring for illegal immigrants, many of whom are trying to escape tyranny or poverty in their homelands.
Some conservatives oppose illegal immigration because it allows for immigrants to fall between the cracks of society thus making them more likely to commit crime or experience poverty. Other conservatives view illegal immigration as an exercise in a basic individual human right to pursue happiness. Illegal immigration is also economically damaging to countries because illegal immigrants will often work illegally for below minimum wage, resulting in job loss for legal citizens.
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
- 2008 - Diego Pillco, a 20-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter of actress Adrienne Shelly. Pillco was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Pillco admitted strangling Shelly and then hanging her body to make it look like a suicide. The judge said Pillco would be subject to immediate deportation upon release from prison. [7]
Statistics
The amount of people immigrating to the United States illegally is at epidemic levels: The estimated number of illegal immigrants in the United States in 2005 was 11.1 million. [8]
$397 billion dollars have been paid to illegal immigrants through social services since 1996.[9]
The number of illegal aliens who are in prison is over 600,000.[10]
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References
- ↑ http://immigrationcounters.com/
- ↑ http://www.immigration-usa.com/george_weissinger.html immigration Usa
- ↑ www.uscis.gov Immigration and Naturalization Services
- ↑ www.dhs.gov Department of Homeland Security
- ↑ Missing Soldier's Wife Faces Deportation
- ↑ [1] World Bank Report on Migration and Welfare
- ↑ Illegal Immigrant Worker Sentenced in Slaying of Actress Adrienne Shelly, Associated Press, March 13, 2008
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0603/charts.immigration/frameset.exclude.html?eref=yahoo
- ↑ http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecentersf134
- ↑ http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05646r.html
