Illegal ImmigrationSean Topping

andBrad Cunningham

“As this new era of mass immigration continues, more and more communities — and the people who live in them — are coming to realize the enormous effects of immigration on their lives”

Immigration Vocabulary• Immigration is moving to a new country to live there permanently.• Emigrant: A person who leaves his/her country to live in another.• Illegal Alien: a person who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.

Where Why How

• Along borders; the Mexico/US border• In cargo (hidden places)

• First and foremost; Jobs• Reuniting families• Can’t pass the citizenship test• “Freedom”• Healthcare• Start families

• Crossing the border at night• Hire a coyote or a professional smuggler• Tunnels• Unfinished fences

The Numbers:• 2009: 11,100,000• 2010: 11,200,000 (that’s 100,000 in a year!) Arizona• 375,000 in 2009

Cost of imprisoning illegal immigrants• California spent 1 billion dollars in 2009 (coming out of our wallets)• Illegal immigrants who commit a crime and must spend time in jail, are the ones who cost the most to American tax payers• Cost is around $27,000 a year per prisoner

Smuggling: • in 2000, Us had to pay 3.5 billion dollars due to cocaine and weapon smuggling due to cartels• Due to the gun trade through cartels, 45,000 illegal arms enter the country every year

Cartel• Mexico Is the main foreign supplier or marijuana and also a major supplier of methamphetamines.•An estimated 90% of cocaine entering the US transits though Mexico• 70% of all illegal drugs in the US are smuggled across the border by Mexican drug cartel80% of it is meth.

• Smuggling weapons

Illegal Immigration – The Problem

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Job Displacement• Not to sound racist but, they’re stealing our jobs.• “Why would someone hire a skilled landscape artist to revamp the front lawn for $100

per hour when we can just hire seven Mexicans to do it for $10 an hour with the division of labor? They wouldn’t; it’s more expensive.”

• Over eleven million Americans are out of work and millions more are in danger of losing their jobs.

• The fact is when wages become depressed by an immigrant-flooded labor pool, Americans can no longer survive on the shrunken incomes.

• Would you rather make 5 dollars a day in Mexico or 50 dollars a day in the US?

Solutions:

• Controlling the border• Monitoring legal immigration• Enforcing laws to control or eliminate illegal immigration• Find them and deport them; enforce the current laws (SB1070)

Sources•"Illegal Immigration - The $113 Billion Dollar Drain on the American Taxpayers." Online Video Clip. Illegal Immigration Statistics. 3/2/11. http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/illegal-immigration-a-113-billion-a-year-drain-on-u-s-taxpayers/#more-331•Mexico's Drug Cartels. 10/ 16/ 07 FAS.org. - http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf• Greene, Andrew. "Mexicans Are Stealing Our Jobs.“. April 28, 2010. http://www.quchronicle.com/2010/04/mexicans-are-stealing-our-jobs/• Immigration and big labor laws. 12-12-04 F.A.I.R.. http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23663&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007 • Job Displacement. 2008 I.H.C. <http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/job.html>.