What are some cons to illegal immigration?

Question

I have a debate class and a lot of good research but it never hurts to ask another persons opininon, so what are your thoughts on illegal immigration and some cons.

Answer 1

1. Welfare: $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.

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2. Food assistance: $2.2 billion dollars a year are spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

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3. Social services: Add social services to welfare and food assistance and American taxpayers are spending $90 billion dollars a year are spent on illegal aliens.

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4. Medicaid: $2.5 billion dollars a year are spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

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5. Education: $12 billion dollars a year are spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

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6. Education: $17 billion dollars a year are spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

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7. Lost wages: Americans lose $200 billion dollars a year in suppressed wages caused by illegal aliens.

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8. Crime: The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US

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9. s*x crime: 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million s*x Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States '.

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10. Incarceration: $3 million dollars per day are spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

11. Incarceration: 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

12. Border crossing: During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 million illegal aliens that crossed our southern border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the southern

border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

13. Deportation: The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'

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14. Remittances: In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 billion in remittances back to their countries of origin.

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The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR

(More information here:  http://immigrationcounters.com/)

Good luck.  Hope you win.

Answer 2

Common sense: Criminals like the Mara salvatrucha are entering and doing bad deeds. Drug dealers same case

The USA government has not solved this problem. They arrest the criminals, deport them and they return. They say that they don't want to fill the prisons with them, but their governments cannot handle the situation either.

When the criminals arrive at their countries they are free to do their evil deeds. That is not solving the problem

It is really absurd that the USA government has not stopped this

Answer 3

Overpopulation.  We hear a lot of talk about global warming and environmental conservation.  However, if we continue to wrecklessly increase our population, all the energy saving lightbulbs and carpools in the world won't make a bit of difference.  Do we want a country with a billion people where every bit of land is developed?  Slowing legal and eliminating illegal immigration is essential to the environmental health of our country.

Answer 4

There are about $70 billion reas$on$ that are cons.

These leeches cost us dearly.....and at the expense of the american taxpayer and at the expense of the most vulnerable americans who compete with them for jobs.

DEPORT Deport deport

Answer 5

Things not mentioned yet: 12 million illegals is a number that was used over 20 years ago.........it is more like 20 to 30 million now.

1. Using up natural resources.  Illegals put a burden on our electric, water, and gas sources.  More people on our grids means less resources for citizens.  Why should we have to turn our air conditioners off, when there are people who are using up our electricity  that do not deserve to be here?

2. Wear and tear on roads, more people means more wear.  Many dont have drivers licenses or insurance.  Get in an accident with one and just see what a horror story developes for you.  Better yet, what happens if they kill one of your family members or friends?

3. Housing.  They cant afford homes by themselves so more than one family, many times 2 or 3, live in a house or apartment made for a limited amount of people.  Over crowding causes dirty, unhealtful living conditions, this breeds disease.

4. Vaccinations: They dont have them, therefore bring in disease or get sick and spread it around to others.

5.  English:  They dont speak English.  How are they to communiate to others.  How about reading street and stop signs. This causes accidents.  What if you got hurt and they had to call for help for you and cant.  A country without a disignated language is in dire straights.  It holds a country together.

6.  What if they work with you and you cant communicate with them?

Then of course you have all the others mentioned.........crime because they cant make enough money, cost to tax payers in having to have everything printed in more than one language, using hospitals as private doctors instead of for emergencies, holding citizens' children back in school because they cant understand English, taking entrance paying jobs that teens and college kids used to get and the list goes on and on.

For those who think they are just here for a better way of life......their thinking is faulty, as they may be here for that, but they are breaking the law by sneaking into this country and they are costing  US money because of it.  Now they are starting to demand rights, of which, they have none because they are criminals.  

A country without boundaries is no longer a country.

Answer 6

You can also get some good info at

www.numbersusa.com

www.cis.org

Answer 7

lets see no is nothing good about illegal immigration but here are a few of the many bad things over population, use billions of tax payers dollars, take up are kids place in school, over crowd our cities, run down are hospitals, break are laws, kill, join gangs, and so many more that i do not feel like listing

Answer 8

send them to Gitmo.

Answer 9

The person Lori K said it better.  Regardless if illegal immigration provides cheap labor is not important.  Illegal immigration is against the law.  And big business and the federal government are simply breaking the law when they allow this.  If they need cheap labor, the government can provide a legitimate guest-worker program.  Read U.S. Code 8 (ALIENS AND NATIONALITY, CHAPTER 12 – IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY).

Plus, here something you should know, some if it is alreay redundant.

1. It is against the law to be in the United States illegally.  That is a U.S. federal legitimate law that does not have to be questioned or removed from the law books.  Read U.S. Code 8 (ALIENS AND NATIONALITY).



2.  All 50 states including U.S. territories must obey and enforce U.S. federal laws, as mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

3.  All government officials (local, county, state, and federal) must take an oath to uphold all U.S. laws and end it by saying “so help me God”.

4. It is the responsibility of all government officials (local, county, state, and federal) if they find illegal immigrants (through their own police force) to just turn them in to ICE and ICE will have them deported.  If any government official looks the other way with full knowledge of illegal immigrants then that person is breaking the law.   So it is not just a federal thing, it applies to all levels of government.  If any lawyer tells you other wise, then that person is lying.  Enforcing the boarders is a joint effort for all levels of government.

5. All countries have the right to enforce their boarders and they have the right to be xenophobic.  If the United States wants to close the borders then it can do so without the permission on non-U.S. Citizens.

6. The reason why there are so many illegal immigrants is because big business wants them here as cheap labor and is too cheap pay decent wages to Americans for the same jobs.  So they bribe the government and to tell them to look the other way.  If they really need cheap labor, the government can provide a legitimate guest-worker program.  This way it is controlled and documented.