Legalizing Illegal Immigrants in U.S

Legalizing Illegal Immigrants in U.S

Introduction

Americans are confronted with a problem that Europeans know well: illegal immigration. Approximately 300,000 Mexicans and South Americans succeed every year to enter the United States illegally. The system put in place to curb the influx is a model of dysfunction. Estimates of the number of "illegal" working in the country vary between 12 and 20 million people. People that United States need and that Americans do not like and people who work hard and do not have any rights. Recently, the debate over legalizing these illegal immigrants is increased and the President also passes laws over easing their difficulties. There are many pros and cons of legalizing such people which affects the country in many terms, also supported and argued by the citizens and the experts.

Discussion

Illegal immigration levels were increased gradually during the 70s and 80s, reaching in 1986 the unrivaled dimension of border arrests 1.6 million. Although the economy was growing period and most illegal immigrants found work quickly, the general concern increased steadily, culminating in the passage of the 1986 legislation noted above. His goal was to tighten control over the flow of illegal immigrants by making employers were subject to fines and imprisonment for hiring illegal workers. Therefore, the strategy to prevent entry through strengthened border controls with the introduction of labor-provision legality as a requirement for a job, in an effort to reduce the incentive for illegal immigration supposed availability jobs. In return for these tightening measures developed a legalization program, through which 3 million people have regularized their situation in the United States. The size of the illegal population in the United States is now close to the period before 1986 (Hoefer et al. 2009). Wages have not increased in the labor markets of low pay as they should if the tightening of labor standards were in effect. There has been a resurgence of sweatshops in sectors such as the manufacture of clothing, that immigrant workers have traditionally used, and there are indications that sanctions may increase discrimination against nonwhite workers.

These factors have led some labor unions and advocacy organizations most important civil rights make a call for the repeal of the law that penalizes employers who currently considering repealing the U.S. Congress. Government efforts to enforce sanctions have been weak, but the main system failure is the absence of requirements that ensure the existence of reliable identity documents.

Thus, the ability of the U.S. to control illegal immigration begins largely a matter as seemingly remote and esoteric as that of identity documents. But this issue is that, in turn, arouses alarm signals in the minds of Americans about government control versus individual freedom (Ngai, 2003). Proposals to improve the security of the documents or to introduce a universal identification in order to quell illegal immigration are considered, generally, as a remedy worse than the disease. According to a survey conducted by CNN television network in May 2007, 80% of Americans favor the legalization of illegal immigrants ...