Illegal Immigration into America

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Illegal immigration is a problem that affects all Americans. Illegal immigration into the United States is a huge social and economical problem. It is not only unfair but a burden to both Americans and the home country of the illegal immigrant. People coming to the United States illegally cost the American tax payer, harms the American workforce, undermines legal immigrants, and affects every citizen in the United States. Illegal Immigration into America is not a group of people coming here to do good service and help our economy. It is not citizens that were rightfully born here. It is not one race or culture illegally coming to our country. Illegal immigration is a group of people that cross our border and settle in America not to help the American economy but for their own self benefit.

Illegal Aliens are harming our economy and are taking American jobs contrary to what you are led to believe.

"Over the past 10 years, more than 2 million low-skilled American workers have been displaced from their jobs and each 10 percent increase in the immigrant workforce decreases U.S. wages by 3.5 percent" writes CNN financial analyst Lou Dobbs (Grigg 1). Current president George W. Bush and his political allies assure the public that illegal immigrants are doing jobs that nobody else wants. However, Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, points out "what they really mean is that they are doing the jobs that they as middle- and upper-class people don't want" (Grigg 1). Agriculture has many other instances of employers switching to immigrant workers whether they are legal or not to increase their profits. For example, Hispanic migrants have displaced native black workers in the Georgia peach industry and migrants have replaced natives and previous immigrants in the cucumber and apple industries...