by Teresa Weimer

Created on: October 02, 2009

An estimated seventeen million illegal immigrants currently reside in the US. They're here illegally earning wages without paying income taxes choosing instead to send their tax free dollars home to families that live in their native countries. Although millions of illegal's live and work in the states their earnings are not supporting the American infrastructure and network of services providing for their families inside the US. Illegal immigration is devastating American resources stretching them beyond capacity.

American tax payers absorb the bulk of the burden associated with the costs of their medical care, emergency care, the use of police and other civil servants that support illegal's and their families. They are not contributing to the school systems or paying the teacher salaries that educate their children. They're not helping to fund the jails that house their gang members or the police that are fighting crimes and drugs to which they participate. Illegals are not supporting the many government services they use currently being provided at the expense of American citizens. We're feeding, teaching, housing and caring for their children at the cost of our own while they send their money elsewhere.

Immigrants are obtaining driver's licenses without the ability to speak or read the English language. They are operating vehicles without automobile insurance knowing they can't read English road signs. How can you follow the rules when you don't know the language? The number of uninsured motor vehicle accidents is increasing insurance rates for citizens who follow the rules and have insurance. There is the cost of trauma teams, helicopter pilots, hospital staff and medical attention illegal's receive plus lives lost as Americans are killed on the highways. How is any of this fair to the American people who suffer and endure the while illegal's enjoy a conscience free ride at our expense?

Illegal immigration is essentially a contradiction of what America stands for as a country built on the ideal of fairness and justice for all. Nowhere is it written that the fundamental rights of the American citizens are shared by law breakers such as those people living in America illegally. If you are in this country working without paying taxes then you are a criminal. Illegals may be productive workers, but they're not productive to a system they weaken by exhausting its resources while others pay the bill.

How can a government willing to convict and jail Wesley

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