What is illegal immigration? Are there ways around illegal immigration? Is it okay for illegal immigrants to come into the United States without any consequences? Illegal immigration is coming into the U.S. without permission from the government. According to the article, “5 Facts About Illegal Immigration”, in 2015, there were 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., Mexicans made up half of them in 2016, and “the U.S. civilian workforce includes 8 million unauthorized immigrants, accounting for 5% of those who were working or were unemployed and looking for work” (Krogstad, Passel, and Cohn,2017).” Illegal immigrants take over a big portion of the U.S. population, and they take thousands of jobs as well. The United States needs to take
Americans hire illegal immigrants knowing they are illegal. The unemployment rate is high in the U.S., so letting immigrants work is taking away from Americans getting jobs. The main reason they come here is to work. Everyday, Americans get their jobs taken by illegal immigrants. Immigrants get jobs in high paying industries and in fields, then pay the government nothing. The only jobs immigrants should be able to get are extreme labor jobs, and they need to be legal. They should get jobs working in a vineyard picking grapes or working in watermelons and cantaloupes, and even then they need to be legal. If illegal immigrants were not hired, then they would not be in
DACA stands for, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, it is a program for immigrants who are minors that came into the U.S. illegally, and are eligible for a two-year program to not get deported and get a work permit (Robertson, 2). Although they have to be approved for DACA, those minors could be bringing drugs into our country, which is where a big portion of the drugs come from. A lot of the drugs, like cocaine and marijuana, are brought into the United States by these immigrants, and they makes the crime rate go up. “Mr. Trump said in a statement that he was driven by a concern for “the millions of Americans victimized by this unfair system.” Mr. Sessions said the program had “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs”(Shear and Davis, 2017, 4). Letting them take these jobs and not being legal is unfair. Making bills to end DACA and letting Congress vote to end it, like what President Donald Trump is doing is one way to do away with it, but letting the citizens vote on it would be the strongest and most efficient way to end it. The people in government and military are not getting their jobs taken from them, but it is the “everyday civilians”. The only thing government is getting affected by is not getting money, because the illegal immigrants do not pay taxes. Every day civilians are the ones who need a job because they have children, house payments, and other bills