A few days ago, I was talking about my topic “Immigration” to one of my classmate and said that she’s tired of hearing about immigration. I do not blame her; the reason is that most people who are talking about immigrants are not expressing it in a positive way. Most of the time they are referring to illegal immigrants. I would like to make clear that not every immigrant is illegal; most of them follow the required legal process. As we may know, “ immigration is at one of its historic highs: Counting undocumented (“illegal”) immigrants, well over 2 million people a year come to the United states, and, compared with past immigrants, far fewer of them ever leave. In fact immigration now counts for 37 percent of the country’s population growth”. (A multicultural portrait of immigration: Petra Press, 1996).
Some U.S. citizens believe that all immigrants have become a serious threat to this country and would like to see it stopped. They are saying that immigrants represent a load to our tax dollar because they crowd our public schools; increase welfare checks, etc…Right now, illegal immigration is one of the most obvious problem. Is there a problem with the current system? What can they do to solve this problem? One of the solution could be to control traffic on all of the borders and enforce the laws to punish employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. It might work, you never know.