One of the most controversial political issues of today is that of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be stopped, as it is unfair to both Americans and to the people of the country from which they illegally immigrated. It is thought that the majority of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. are Mexicans. Illegal immigration from Mexico must be stopped by means of different policies and other methods of prevention, because the effects on both Mexico and the United States unpleasant for either.
There are many policies and means of preventing illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Immigration laws are the catalysts of illegal immigration prevention. Proposition 187 is a tough immigration law clamping down on illegal aliens, used in California, the state with the most illegal immigrants. It doubled the number of boarder guards, made it harder for legal immigrants to bring their families over, not permitting as much political refuge and was harder on illegal aliens already here.
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English: Part of the immigration removal centre on...NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) hasn't reduced as much illegal immigration as had been hoped. The major reason Mexicans tend to illegally immigrate is to find much needed jobs. Therefore, elimination of the chance of them getting a job would be a deterrent. A bill presented by California would let the employer enter a job applicant's social security number over the phone to receive confirmation, of a person's official citizenship. That would work in conjunction with the need for proper documentation to be shown to employer for current verification of legal citizenship, limiting their job opportunities and thus discouraging them from ever illegally immigrating. The Border Patrol is the most effective and widely used form of prevention. It is an agency of Immigration and Naturalization that...