On Illegal Immigration
According to a study, approximately 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2004).According to Federation for American Immigration Reform (http://www.fairus.org), the Center for Immigration Studies estimated the illegal alien population to be from 10 to 12 million as of 2004.
FrontPage Magazine interviewed Maricopa County Attorney Andrew P. Thomas (district attorney for Phoenix, Arizona), who admitted that Arizona leads the nation in its rates of illegal immigration and crime, and that they are directly related. (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19775)
The crimes that he mentioned ranged from fraud to murder.
In addition, the latest released unemployment rate is about 5%. So… why are we allowing people to come across our borders and take our jobs and homes and commit crimes against our people when there are people who desperately need jobs and homes and have lived here in the US all their lives? Granted, there are apparently more illegal immigrants than homeless, but why did they come across illegally to begin with? It’s not that difficult to come here legally! Employers offer work visas, and schools offer education visas. People are even given the opportunity to become citizens.
In this day and age after 9/11, we can not afford to allow just anyone into this country. We need to be more diligent in screening people that come into the country; our security depends on it.
posted by Jen @ 11:45 PM
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