Illegal immigration, one of the many domestic issues the US faces today, seems to me to have a lot of people who don't understand why it is called ILLEGAL immigration in the first place. Some people say illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do and are needed to keep the economy alive. To all those people who say that I say BULLSHIT!
*Americans don't do those jobs not because it is hard work, but because the pay is way too low. These jobs usually violate minimum wage laws which are in place for a reason; so no one in this country is forced to work long hours doing back-braking work and still have to live far below the poverty line.
*They aren't needed to keep the economy alive. They are needed to keep some food prices as low are now but overall having these jobs paying a half-way decent wage would benifit the economy because more money would be going back into the economy.
*Illegal immigrants often don't pay the taxes which every other legal worker have to pay yet still use paying services provided through money raised by taxes which causes an increase in the amount of taxes the real tax-payers pay.
*Illegal immigration undermines the hard work and effort legal immigrants put in in order to become American citizens or green card workers.
*Some, not all, illegal immigrants come here to work but upon getting paid barely enough if even enough to survive turn to illegal activities in order to put some extra cash in their pockets.
*Some of the illegal immigrants aren't even here to permantly live in the first place. They come to sell drugs to the ever growing consumer group here in America. This not only puts more drugs into circualtion here. It increases the amount of violence related to drug trafficing and use in this country. It also increase the strength of these drug cartels in Mexico which use fear, intimidation, and corruption to control Mexican citizens and their government- the very thing many of the illegal and legal immigrants from Mexico come here to escape. A bit of a vicious circle isn't it.
*Some come here claiming that the soutwestern part of the United States is historically there's, not only because Mexico may have controlled it at one time, but because they are descendants of the Aztec Empire. I'd hate to inform them but the area they think was controlled by the Aztec Empire was actually controlled by various Native American groups; not by the Aztecs. Plus the Mexican-American war was just that- war- if you lose you lose. Simple as that.
To me it seems that most of the excuses to allow illegal immigrants to keep coming to America are meaningless when you take a look at all of the consequences. I'm sure there are quite a few I failed to mention. It is not the American way to allow people to come here illegally. Stopping illegal immigration does not mean a stop to all immigration. This country was built on LEGAL immigration, not illegal.
