Introduction
Immigration refers to the movement of people from their country into another to stay in that country permanently. Such immigration is said to be illegal if they contravene the established laws of that country. This paper seeks to argue for strict deportation of illegal immigrants. The paper will look into factors surrounding illegal immigration and the impacts of such immigration in the United States.
Arguments for strict measures against illegal immigrants
America has been a recipient to a wide variety of immigrants from different parts of the world. As a result, the number of immigrants has been increasing year by year. One of the major causes of immigration into the United States is the fact that its economy is recognized worldwide to be stable with relatively well-paying jobs as compared to those that are offered in other countries.
People thus look for avenues that can land them into the United States with an ultimate goal gaining permanent residence. Though better wages are available for the immigrants, their influx into the country is accompanied by significant negative impacts in the economy of the United States.
The first victims of illegal immigration are Americans in job markets whose employment opportunities are threatened by the immigrants in a variety of ways. The main reason for the immigrants flowing into the United States being the search for better economic grounds makes the American job market to be their first target once they move in.
The fact that they must support themselves economically also establishes the grounds for their existence in the job market. This in the first place infiltrates the marked thus posing an effect on the amount in wages that employers are willing to offer. The fact that the supply of labor is increased also implies an effect of a reduced price for labor.
Natives are as a result forced to suffer from the unfair competition that will have been posted by individuals who are not supposed to be in the United States in the first place. Apart from suffering in terms of the amount that employers are willing to offer, the natives also face the threat of job insecurity due to the arrival of illegal immigrants.
Since the immigrants arrive while desperate for job opportunities, they pose the tendency to accept lower wages than those that the natives would demand. The fact that their countries of origin could not offer satisfactory wages as compared to even the low ones that discriminative employers would be ready to give them also contributes to their acceptance of relatively low wages as compared to the natives.
Consequently, employers who are at the same time centered on minimizing their cost would prefer the use of illegal immigrants as employees instead of expensive natives. There are thus risks of natives losing their jobs to immigrants. The impact that is caused in the job market due to immigration is thus one of the bases for which it should be controlled to protect the interest of American citizens (Sari and Ker 4).
The trickling effects of immigrants will also have an implied effect on the government in general terms. Following provisions that have been made giving allowance for illegal immigration, there is an established additional strain that is laid on the federal government based on the provision of services to the general public that includes the immigrants. This can be viewed from two perspectives.
The first aspect is that these immigrants will utilize the services that are offered by the federal government and consequently cost the federal budget. This is reflected on the federal expenditure that is occasionally more than the revenues thus portraying a deficit in federal’s annual budgets. The inflow of immigrants is thus identified as one of the causes of deficits that are usually realized in federal budgets.
The fact that the deficit has never been recently corrected also enlists the need for finding its solution. Elimination of illegal immigrants from the United States and further control of further inflow of illegal immigrants can thus be seen as an avenue for trimming the federal expenditure to reduce the deficit that is traditionally realized in federal budgets.
The fact that illegal immigrants are not accurately accounted for also introduces a threat to the planning for and provision of services to people. The significant number of immigrants that are realized yearly, for instance, creates a relative shortage in the general provision of commodities and services that depends on planning.
Provisions that are made following data of populations are caused to be insufficient since the inflow of immigrants is significant and can thus destabilize budgeted provisions. Americans are thus normally at risks of shortages of provisions due to consumptions by illegal immigrants, and one of the ways by which this can be corrected is by ensuring that such inflow of illegal immigrants who are undocumented and thus unplanned for is controlled.
Control of government expenditure caused by the already existing illegal immigrants should also be reduced by reducing this number through the deportation of such individuals (Porter 1). Another factor that calls for strict application of the law for the deportation of illegal immigrants in the United States is the fact that the legislation that has been in existence has provided avenues for such immigrants to in the past gain legality as citizens of the United States.
Legislations such as “immigration and naturalization” provisions of the year 2000 that granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had been in the united states since the year 1986 and further made ways for foreigners to be allowed into the united states provided that they had relatives who are citizens have also played a role in increasing the number of illegal immigrants (Porter 1).
The legalization also directly saw the individuals who were granted citizenship have their relatives come into the United States to stay with them. “Immigration reform and control act” is also said to have been a factor towards the inflow of illegal immigrants based on having relatives who are citizens in the United States (Porter 1).
Amendment of section two hundred and forty-five of the constitution in the year 1994 that allowed for the adoption of some groups of immigrants is also a factor that is seen to have promoted illegal immigration in the past. Under this provision, individuals who had entered the borders of the United States illegally were granted the legality to be citizens as well as those who were in the United States on visas but whose visas had been canceled (Porter 1).
On this basis, the amendment is seen to have formed a basis of a possibility of being legalized once an individual has immigrated illegally. NACARA, another provision that was made under lawmaking processes also granted amnesty and allowed given categories of people to move into the states and be considered as residents permanently.
Legislations that have been made over the provision of services also reveal aspects that have been attracting immigrants. The allowance that is granted to illegal immigrants to access even higher education through government funding is for example identified as a tool that promotes illegal immigration.
People who are interested in studying in the American facilities would for these provisions move to access free basic education and even hope to benefit from the federal services that are offered in higher education institutions. The tolerant legislative provisions are thus the worst enemy of the United States concerning controlling illegal immigrants as it forms an attraction to the individuals.
Since the law itself motivates potential immigrants, only strict measures to those who have been found guilty of the act can serve as an example to others to discourage further immigration into the United States. The strict application of law such deportation of immigrants inspire of any advantages that the immigrants could have taken such as having their relatives in the united states will.
For example, discourage immigrations that are based on the hope of using citizen relatives to acquire legality of permanent residence in the united states (Porter 1). The impacts of immigration into the United States have at the same time enlisted arguments as to whether immigrants should be granted equivalent status as natives. This is because of the strains that the immigrant population has been exerting on the government.
The complexity over this matter is the fact that the American constitution has been interpreted by the supreme courts to make the government liable for every single person that dwells in the lands of the United States. This implies that every single individual that has managed to have his or her ways into the United States must be provided for by the federal government.
Thus, so long as the immigrants are within the borders, they have a right over the expenditures that are incurred by the government for provisions to the legal citizens of the United States. Strict deportation thus remains the only sure alternative of saving the government from the extra expenditures caused by illegal immigration (Carabelli 1).
The revelation of the census that was conducted in the year 1980 also revealed an alarming number of illegal immigrants that calls for measures of control. In the state of Columbia alone, for example, more than two million people were realized as foreigners who were never on any records. Such high numbers also call for strict control measures over illegal immigrants (Passel and Woodrow 1).
Arguments against strict measures of illegal immigrants
Human rights activists and socialists, however, argue on the contrary that immigrants should be provided for by the government on the basis that like American citizens, the illegal immigrants should be accorded humane treatment such as all benefits that American citizens are entitled to (Dwyer 1).
Conclusion
Though the immigrants are human beings like Americans, the fact that they are aware that such immigration is against laws and the implications that are associated with such immigration, especially in the United States calls for a more strict approach of controlling immigration so as to protect the people of America as well as the federal government that might be overwhelmed by responsibility over immigrants.
The benefits which will be accrued from the deportation of illegal immigrants will go a long way to benefit the American citizens at large. This paper thus argues for strict deportation of illegal immigrants from the United States.
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