Illegal Immigration: The Untold Truth
With the failing economy many struggle to find jobs and a place to rest their head. Illegal immigrants take jobs and bring crime and
illegal substances into the U.S. at an increasing rate. More than 300,000 illegal immigrants flock to the United States each year and
more than 1.1 Million of them live in the United States permanently. Many of these immigrants traffic drugs into the United States,
drugs that kill or permanently affect the human body. With that being said “we the people” must find a way to put a stop to this.
Thesis statement: The disregard for undocumented Aliens into the United States hurts Americans with an increase in Illegal drugs and
the loss of jobs for Americans.
I. Drug Trafficking and Illegal Smuggling into the U.S.
A. The Mexican Cartels bring in billions of dollars with the money made from illegal drug sales in the United States.
1. The Americans high demand for illegal drugs fuel this drug trade and puts money into the hands of
lethal drug cartels.
a) “United States Officials say Mexico is now the number one supplier of illegal amphetamines
and barbiturates to the United States.”
(1) Both the United States and Mexico are trying to resolve this problem in an attempt to
stop the drug trafficking between the borders.
(2) Even with both countries trying to prevent the drug trafficking problem, the Mexican
farmers say that the problem doesn’t lie with them growing the drugs it lies with the thousands
of Americans that buy them.
b) With the rich soil and nice climate, Mexico is a good growing place for the drug-producing
plant known as Marijuana.
(1) The Mexican farmers that are producing these drugs are only doing it to provide for
there families, and in many cases these farmers are the lower class peasants.
(2) In Mexico there are so many peasant drug farmers that the Mexican Agents can not
stop the production of these drugs.
2. “Mexico produces almost forty percent of the heroin consumed in the United States.”
a) “The price of an ounce of ninety percent pure heroin on the streets of Mexico City doubles as
it crosses the United States Border.”
b) Six percent of Mexico’s income comes from selling drugs to people mainly in the United
States.
B. “Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans attempt to cross the border illegally into the United States.
1. The illegal immigrants pay a coyote or guide to take them across the border illegally.
a) The illegal immigrants walk for days sometimes without food or water.
b) If the coyote or guide doesn’t think that his group can make it (s)he will leave them and most
of the time not come back for them.
2. The border patrol has arrested 272,397 illegal immigrants in the Arizona’s Sonoran Desert alone.
a) Many of the illegal immigrants that make the trip never make it in fact, “an average of 2
people a day die trying to make the trip for a better life in America.”
b) Many immigrants get caught by the border patrol since they have been cracking down.
II. Illegal immigrants are harmful to the United States economy.
A. Illegal immigrants send 40 billion dollars annually in remitted wages to their home countries.
1. Illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayers 10 billion dollars every year in federal expenses
alone.
a) On top of the 10 billion dollars in federal expenses the state expenses include education,
medical care, welfare benefits, jail costs, and high insurance premiums for law-abiding citizens.
b) Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and if they do they are using forged social security
numbers henceforth stealing someone’s identity.
(1) MSNBC reporters have linked an increase in identity theft with illegal immigration.
(2) The few pennies that the illegal immigrants do pay is in sales tax on non-food items
and even though they do pay that it does not make them a taxpayer.
2. Many illegal immigrants are helped by “non-profit” charities.
a) These so called “non-profit” charities are actually paid for by financial grants which are
mostly hidden form the public.
b) The financial grants are paid for with taxpayer’s money which in turn is used to help not
only, but not limited to, illegal immigrants.
B. Politicians are aware of the illegal immigrants and help them in some cases with the laws, and bills they pass.
1. Colorado’s governor Bill Owens signed at booklet that told illegal immigrants things such as how to
find a job, and were they could get free health care.
a) The name of the booklet was “Enterese!” (Inform Yourself), Survival Guide for Recent
Arrivals to Colorado.
b) The booklet was written by two “non-profit” charities that are paid for with taxpayer’s
money.
2. The fact of the matter is that the United States Government uses the hard-working class taxpayer’s
money to fund these so called “non-profit” charities.
a) The charities get financial help from grants that are paid for with taxpayer’s money.
b) If many of these charities did not get financial grants then they would have to close and those
still running would be financially suffering.
III. Protecting the Border and Preventing Illegal Immigrants
A. Illegal immigrants not only harm the United States but many harm themselves.
1. Many illegal immigrants that set off for the United States will never make it, because many of them
die along the way there.
a) After the death of 14 immigrants crossing the Arizona desert the United States began to
crackdown on these crossings not only for the safety of the United States but for the safety of them.
b) The United States spends two billion dollars annually to build fences and post twenty-four
hour patrols.
2. It is said that some three hundred thousand immigrants enter illegally or overstay there visa’s.
a) Some 1,140 border patrol agents are to be added over the next two years increasing the
number of agents to 11,000.
b) In some places like San Diego often known as the frontline for the war on immigration
border patrol agents are being replaced with fourteen miles of fencing, spotlights, and even infrared
cameras.
B. Many believe that the United States should militarize the border.
1. The United States is no longer having an immigration problem it is having an invasion.
a) Three hundred thousand illegal immigrants stay in the United States temporarily but some
eleven million illegal aliens live permanently in the United States.
b) Since the problem has tripled since the 1970’s this invasion of illegal immigrants is our fault
because our laws and lawmakers allow the immigrants to come here and stay.
2. It states in the Constitution of the United States of America that the federal government has the
obligation to protect its citizens from invasion.
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