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Illegal Immigration and the economy

Ever since, the USA government has decided that Mexican immigrants posed a terrorist threat and began to crack down on companies hiring illegal aliens, the economy started to head south. Many of these immigrants mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean take jobs that most Americans would not take; such as seasonal backbreaking agricultural, construction, landscaping, and maintenance jobs.

Unfortunately, there are unscrupulous business owners or farmers who take advantage of undocumented workers making these people work in terrible conditions, substandard housing, and below minimum wages. On the other hand, there are some small businesses trying to survive because of high taxes and regulated required expenses such as workman's compensation, insurance, health plans and etc. Large corporations get these huge tax breaks and the small business owners get squeezed, the US should give the tax breaks to the small business owners to increase jobs here in the US. Large corporations tend to take their jobs to other countries and mainly outsource jobs to get cheap labor and to deplete other countries resources.

Congress failed to deal with immigration on a federal level so states which are not receptive to Spanish immigration in their states are allowing these same states to handle immigration laws locally. Immigrants who have lived 10 or more years in the USA and who have had children in the US are literally being separated. The border states such as Nevada, Arizona, California and Texas are building high fences this crack down has created tensions between Mexico and the US and has started a war down in border towns in Mexico and the US where Drug lords and gangs have killed innocent police, civilians and border patrols.

The Republican Party of family values condone separating families under the disguise of upholding immigration laws; after many years of ignoring this issue; all of a sudden it is important to do something because it has become a political issue this year. The USA has decided to wage war on hard working non English speaking illegal immigrants and in a less than humane way. As a hard working class of people are being deported immigration has allowed legal immigrants from such nations as Algeria, Nigeria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Philippines, Korea and China.
These are countries where terrorists organizations or where high anti American sentiment are great. Are these immigrants scrutinized, investigated and cleared of any terrorist ties to radical groups before they are allowed to enter the USA. Do Americans need to alienate their neighbor Mexico during growing times of anti American sentiment in the World?

The federal government should reform Immigration and it should be done in a method which we do not destroy families by separating American children by their illegal immigrant parents. It is not amnesty by letting these immigrants remain in the USA, President Bush and McCain were torn apart by their own party by suggesting that these immigrants remain in the states , they would pay a fine, they would be made to pay taxes but would not have social security until they become citizens and they would have to wait on the back of the line to get citizenship among legal immigrants entering the country. Many Republicans cried it was immigration amnesty and preferred to just round up people and ship them out by keeping them in jail facilities before deportation.

We as Americans are a land of immigrants, legal immigrants faced discrimination and injustice, and first it was the Irish, then the Jews, now it's the Mexicans who will be next in line?

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