What Is The Problem Of Illegal Immigration
There are approximately 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. These immigrants possess no documents and crossed the US border illegally. Many of the undocumented immigrants are coming from Mexico and South America. About 56% of the immigrants are from Mexico alone while the rest are distributed evenly among South American countries like Honduras, Panama, and Guatemala. Along with them they bring many different problems such as increased gang violence in the United States, and various drug trafficking complications. Drugs are a huge problem; many underground tunnels have been found along the border. Another problem with undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay taxes. According to fairus.org, “Illegal immigrants cost U.S taxpayers
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about 113 billion dollars at the federal, state, and local level. The bulk of the costs - some 84 billion - are absorbed by state and local governments”.
With an estimated, staggering 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., people might be confused as to how those people got here in the first place. The answer is simple: border security is incompetent. It is very easy for people from Mexico to walk into the US, and begin a life illegally. A way to add to border security effectiveness was to add a wired fence, but this did not accomplish much. According to Fox News, border patrol apprehension is going down significantly by a margin of 75% in 2000 and 50% in 2008. One solution is to raise the wages of border patrollers. This may encourage them to actually put effort into their jobs, and makes it more likely that people will apply for those jobs.
When you’re thinking illegal migration, your idea might be that they only jump the fence into another country.
Well news flash the Canadian and Mexican border isn’t the only way in. Actually many people try and float their way across the border on makeshift rafts and simple inner tubes. It is not as easy as it sounds, however, because if you're caught, different penalties will take effect depending on how far from the border you are. Many of the people living on the islands on the Gulf of Mexico are refugees who go for the easiest way possible to getting into the U.S. which is Florida’s pinnacle. Miami has the most illegal immigrants from the island countries. 53% of unauthorized immigrants come in through Florida, Texas, New York, and California, because that is the quickest way for them to get into the U.S. When the U.S. forces people out of the country it is pretty hard on them because they would have to pay for the immigrants ticket out of the country. A solution to this problem is to put extra surveillance on those major illegal immigration sites. If we have extra coast guard enforcing immigration laws in those states (Florida, Texas, New York, California), then fewer people can sneak into the U.S. Also when we have fewer unauthorized immigrants coming in, fewer immigrants will have to be …show more content…
deported.
Although these laws might help solve the immigration problem, It probably won’t affect the problem with refugees that the U.S.
is facing today. More that 50,000 children have arrived in the United States in 2014, an increase of more than 90 percent from last year. The flood of refugees has arrived from Latin America. They didn’t come from Mexico as one might expect; rather arriving in huge numbers from countries like Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The refugees are fleeing apocalyptic gang violence. Honduras in particular is now the murder capital of the world with Mexico not far behind. Additionally, some people reportedly have gotten the idea that the U.S. government is now treating immigrant children more leniently. One solution to the problem might be to end the drug war that is currently raging in Latin America. The gang violence is the direct result of the drug war; gangs fight to control the supply of drugs into and out of the country. Ending the drug war could involve many different policies, but the key to limit the spread of gang violence is to remove drug supply from the control of criminal gangs. This means tougher laws and more thorough searches in the Latin American countries. Many families have been forced to move from their houses and have been uprooted from their culture because of this violence, and it must be stopped at all
costs.
about 113 billion dollars at the federal, state, and local level. The bulk of the costs - some 84 billion - are absorbed by state and local governments”.
With an estimated, staggering 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., people might be confused as to how those people got here in the first place. The answer is simple: border security is incompetent. It is very easy for people from Mexico to walk into the US, and begin a life illegally. A way to add to border security effectiveness was to add a wired fence, but this did not accomplish much. According to Fox News, border patrol apprehension is going down significantly by a margin of 75% in 2000 and 50% in 2008. One solution is to raise the wages of border patrollers. This may encourage them to actually put effort into their jobs, and makes it more likely that people will apply for those jobs.
When you’re thinking illegal migration, your idea might be that they only jump the fence into another country.
Well news flash the Canadian and Mexican border isn’t the only way in. Actually many people try and float their way across the border on makeshift rafts and simple inner tubes. It is not as easy as it sounds, however, because if you're caught, different penalties will take effect depending on how far from the border you are. Many of the people living on the islands on the Gulf of Mexico are refugees who go for the easiest way possible to getting into the U.S. which is Florida’s pinnacle. Miami has the most illegal immigrants from the island countries. 53% of unauthorized immigrants come in through Florida, Texas, New York, and California, because that is the quickest way for them to get into the U.S. When the U.S. forces people out of the country it is pretty hard on them because they would have to pay for the immigrants ticket out of the country. A solution to this problem is to put extra surveillance on those major illegal immigration sites. If we have extra coast guard enforcing immigration laws in those states (Florida, Texas, New York, California), then fewer people can sneak into the U.S. Also when we have fewer unauthorized immigrants coming in, fewer immigrants will have to be …show more content…
deported.
Although these laws might help solve the immigration problem, It probably won’t affect the problem with refugees that the U.S.
is facing today. More that 50,000 children have arrived in the United States in 2014, an increase of more than 90 percent from last year. The flood of refugees has arrived from Latin America. They didn’t come from Mexico as one might expect; rather arriving in huge numbers from countries like Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The refugees are fleeing apocalyptic gang violence. Honduras in particular is now the murder capital of the world with Mexico not far behind. Additionally, some people reportedly have gotten the idea that the U.S. government is now treating immigrant children more leniently. One solution to the problem might be to end the drug war that is currently raging in Latin America. The gang violence is the direct result of the drug war; gangs fight to control the supply of drugs into and out of the country. Ending the drug war could involve many different policies, but the key to limit the spread of gang violence is to remove drug supply from the control of criminal gangs. This means tougher laws and more thorough searches in the Latin American countries. Many families have been forced to move from their houses and have been uprooted from their culture because of this violence, and it must be stopped at all
costs.