Illegal Immigration

"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. "-Richard Lamm


Amnesty according to Merriam-Webster is, "the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals."  So when it comes to amnesty and illegal immigration, that means we pardon all the illegal immigrants and allow to stay in our country.  Which on some level sounds very nice.  "Aww, you broke the law, oh well you can stay anyway." 

So in this post, I'll be talking about illegal immigration, and why it's bad, why amnesty is bad and why we need to build a fence.


In this country we have laws.  And we follow them, most of us, and those that don't follow the laws have to deal with the consequences of their actions, welcome to jail!  When we ignore the laws of our land and let people go on like nothing ever happened, then our system is a sham.  As the quote says when we don't follow our own laws, that shows the world they don't really matter.  When people say they have certain values or believes, but when times get hard and they leave desert these values, then those people never really held those values to begin with.  Same applies to laws, if we don't follow them when it's hard we never really had that law.  When we give ammnesty we tell the world, come to America we won't kick you out, we will let you stay.  Now for the record, I don't have a problem with immigrants, many of my friends are.  I admire them, they make me feel bad sometimes, and inspire me because they have moved here from many different places and from places they are not as good as America.  And they know what they want and work their butts off to achieve it.  They work harder than many people.  I have a problem with illegal immigrants.  People who break our laws to gain access to this country.  According to Homeland Security the number of illegal immigrants are at 10.8 million for 2009.  Most of these coming from South and Central America, and many from Mexico.  Some bringing in the problems with the drug cartels. 


Now some people claim that having all these illegal immigrants aren't taxing the system.  Now I have to argue.  These people aren't citizens, which makes it hard to find a job, and the ones they find are low paying jobs.  But they are sending their children to schools, and to emergency rooms and using various resources that are supposed to be for American citizens, and because they are 10.8 million people using these resources, I have a very hard time believing they aren't a burden on our system.  However if these extra people aren't a burden on the system, then why is Mexico bracing for the return of these people?  They don't have the money to support these people either, which means money is needed to support these people.  When you have 10.8 million people who are willing to work for cheaper prices, they take jobs that American citizens could have, and with a current unemployment rate of 9.6 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics we need all the jobs we can get.

Now how to we fix this problem?  Very simple.  We build a wall, not just a fence, a wall.  Think Berlin.  I mean it a big, thick wall, with barbed wire on the top.  When someone is found coming in this country illegally, put them in a helicopter, with a parachute and someone who speaks Spanish to tell them how to use it.  Fly over Mexico and drop them into Mexico with a parachute.  Yes, this will take lots of money but now is the perfect time.  One of they main reasons that these people are coming into America is for a better way of life.  Well right now we are struggling with that.  There aren't a lot of jobs for them to take.  Some are starting to go back.  Right now will our economy is not doing so good, we need to build the wall so when we are doing better we can stop the flow of people trying to come in.  And no ammesty.  When we find illegal immigrants in this country, we kick them out. 

Finally just something to think about.  When people in America and around the world want to talk trash about how we are so mean to not let these people in our country, we are certainly nicer than other countries.  Former president Jimmy Carter just went to North Korea to aid in the release of an American citizen who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor and a fine of 700,000 dollars for entering the country illegally.  Most countries around the world don't joke around with immigration and neither should we.



We need to crack down on illegal immigration, this is a problem we can no longer afford to ignore.  If we don't deal with this now, it's going to get to a point where we won't be able to deal with it later.  So tell you representatives to vote against ammnesty and for building a fence to protect our border and help secure our country.






Sources

New Article-http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/asia/28korea.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Quote-http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/immigration.html

Homeland Security Report- http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics-http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate