by Joseph Whalen

Created on: May 28, 2008

There is no doubt that illegal immigration is a huge and complex problem in the United States, largely due to the ineptness and inaction of our political leaders. Instead of taking measures to solve the problem and reduce the back breaking strain on public resources that illegal immigration is having on our society, our politicians instead debate ways to make life easier and grant more rights to illegal immigrants. The hypocrisy of their actions is astounding on many levels.

Millions of illegal immigrants live in our country today, using our tax payer funded resources every day while giving little to nothing back to the system. Most illegal immigrants work "under the table" due to their illegal status in the country, as a result pay no income tax. They live in crowded apartments with groups of other illegals because of justifiable restrictions on housing thus reducing the property taxes they pay and further reducing their contribution to society. Yet every day they use our hospital emergency rooms like their own personal physicians, claiming charity care in a broken health care system that is seeing more and more hospitals close or declare bankruptcy every day.

A massive burden is placed on police and fire, EMS and local governments who are dealing with the massive influx of illegal immigrants who do little to nothing to support the system they are thriving on. Their children flood into our schools increasing class sizes, reducing the overall education quality to taxpaying citizen's children and increasing the costs of education for those who are paying their fair share of taxes. All the while the meager funds they earn working illegally in the United States are funneled back to their homes in other countries robbing the United States of the economic fluidity that a working economy needs to survive.

Yet instead of supporting some of the grass roots efforts already underway to alleviate the burden placed on society by illegal immigrants our politicians seem intent on going out of their way to better the lives of illegal immigrants. It is no secret what the political motivation is for this misguided effort. The country is rapidly leaning towards a mass naturalization of its illegal immigration population. As we continue to allow the problem to get worse without doing anything constructive to curb the tide of illegal immigration the country is quickly becoming frustrated with the situation. The politicians are counting on this frustration leading to one single and

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