Trash left on U.S. soil by illegals crossing the border? Cost to clean up?

In the last few years, the topic of illegal immigration has been a big issue
with lawmakers and people in Congress. Generally speaking, illegal
immigrants are people, primarily from Mexico & Central America, who
enter the United States to enjoy a better lifestyle, make money and help
support their families both at home and back home. They are fleeing
oppression, chronic unemployment, poverty and little or no opportunities in
their homelands.

The law stands between their desire to live and work in the U.S. and the
consequences of massive illegal settlements in the country.

Thousands of people are visa over stayers which, in many cases, are
considered "out of status" and not necessarily illegal aliens. The massive
flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. has caused individual States to
face tough issues. For example, huge economic costs versus the benefits
that result from allowing unlawful immigrants to live, work and attend
public schools in their cities.

Statistics from the Pew Hispanic Center show that 56% of illegal immigrants
in the U.S. come north primarily from Mexico in order to supply thousands
of U.S. employers and farmers with low-skilled laborers.

Pros of Illegal immigration - According to some groups

1. It helps keep the economy moving by filling low-wage jobs.

2. It provides a better lifestyle for those who enter the country illegally.
3. It creates a pool of consumers for a variety of goods and services.
4. Farmers are able to plant and harvest less expensively.
5. Contributions to social security funds often go unclaimed.
6. Illegal immigrants pay sales taxes.
7. Illegal residents, who are property owners, also pay real estate taxes.
8. Millions of illegals rent properties in depressed areas where renters are
hard to find.
9. They purchase real estate and generate commissions for agents and
brokers.
10. Illegal immigrants contribute to mortgage loan profits.
11. They open bank accounts that yield interest and dividends to bankers.
12. Many purchase auto insurance and contribute to insurers profits margins.

Cons Of Illegal immigration - according to anti-unlawful immigration

groups

1. Burden on tax-based resources, costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

2. Difficult prosecution and justice when perpetrators flee the country.
3. Disparity between legal immigrants who follow the rules and those who
don’t.
4. They risk death when traveling the desert to reach the borders.
5. Those who successfully cross the border inspire those left behind to do the
same.
6. Continued growth of the demand for cheap labor and low wages.
7. No government reimbursement to offset states illegal alien maintenance
costs.
8. Potential negative effects on working and middle-class citizens.
9. Millions of U.S. dollars remitted to Mexico
10. Mortgage loan fraud
11. Fake document mills
12. Imbalance in authorized immigration quotas
13. Interstate human trafficking
14. Population health risks due to no pre-entry immunizations
15. Increase in road traffic and usage, injurious or fatal accidents
16. Congestion of tax-based public parks and recreation
17. Overcrowding of public schools
18. Continued law-breaking rationalization for those who employ illegals
19. Growing number of uninsured illegal aliens who can’t pay for claims
20. Monopolization of Spanish language in various segments of society
21. Lack of true ethnic diversity

We live in very difficult times. Poverty stricken people from other countries
are feeling the pains and pressures caused by unemployment, homelessness,
poverty, hopelessness, lack of education, low-paying jobs, stress and hunger.
Should people from south of the border be blamed and criminalized in the
courts of public opinion for trying to have a better life?

Legal immigrants and citizens are also facing economic woes. What about
them? Don’t we have an obligation to take care of our own citizens and legal
residents first?

Assume for a moment that the United States of America is like a homeowner
who went for a long walk and left his garage door open. Inside the garage,
he left his new car, his wallet, cell phone and a briefcase full of cash in it.

Another man, destitute of money and down on his luck, walks by and notices
the garage is open and unattended. He has a family to feed and has been
unemployed for several months. He enters the garage and no one notices
him. He finds the wallet, the cell phone and the briefcase in the car. He takes
both the wallet and the briefcase and disappears into the city to enjoy what
he took without permission.

He tells himself that he only broke into the man's home because he needed
to feed his family and because he was having financial difficulties. He didn't
hurt anyone in the process and he rationalizes that the homeowner can
always file a claim with his credit card companies. He won't miss his money
and will recover just fine.

When the homeowner returns from his long walk, he finds out that he's been
robbed and files a report with the local police. In turn, the police says that
there is nothing they can do since there are no witnesses. The police suggests
that the homeowner locks up his garage door next time to prevent another
illegal entry and theft.
Who is at fault? The man who left his garage door open or the intruder?
Both? Is one man a thief by entering the garage without permission and is
the homeowner a fool for leaving it open and unattended?

Traditional law says that the intruder is a thief and common sense dictates
that the homeowner was careless in failing to protect his assets and his home
against potential intruders.

Did the homeowner who left his garage door open deserve to be robbed
because he left his values in his car and the garage door open? Some people
would say yes. That he was foolish.

On the other hand, the man who walked away with the homeowner's
valuables committed a crime. If caught, tried and convicted, he could face
fines and possible jail time. Yet, he only did what he did to feed his family
and pay for his utilities, clothes for his kids, etc. He only steals to feed his
family and to put food on the table. He sees it as honorable since he's unable
to get a regular, honest job. So he takes his chances.

In this scenario, the fact that the homeowner left his garage door open and
easily accessible to thieves doesn't automatically grant permission for
someone to a) trespass into his property and b) steal his valuable just
because they were 'there'. Furthermore, regardless of the thief's reasoning
for taking someone else's property, robbery is still robbery regardless of how
it's rationalized.

Similarly, illegal immigration may solve the financial challenges faced by

the growing millions of illegal entrants who are in the country to work and
improve their lives but at the end of the day, illegal entry is still just that,
illegal." Jobs are taken from those who are rightfully entitled to them. It is
not legally, morally and ethically OK to enter the country illegally and
benefit from things that were primarily designed for use by legal residents
and citizens.

The many reasons why millions of people enter the country illegally don't
make it OK to break the law and disregard U.S. sovereignty. Breaking the
law in not justifiable simply because illegal immigrants want to take
advantage of jobs, put food on the table, escape poverty, enjoy optimum
medical care, public education, peace, culture, public facilities,
conveniences, friends and relatives, safety, quality of goods and services.
Basically, they're not entitled to the things that were primarily designed for
those who are in the country by birthright or legal residency status.

The notion that it's OK to break the law as long as one's reasons are for a
good cause is flawed, at best. You can't take someone's car because you need
transportation to go to work! Going to work is noble. Taking someone's car
without permission to get there isn't. Immigrating to America legally, easily
or not, is praiseworthy, breaking and entering is not.

The punishment, however, should be metered out to befit the crime. One
should not leave his garage door open if he values what he owns and would-
be intruders should learn that just because a garage door is left open, its not a
license for them to walk in and take what they need.

Often, desperate people don’t care much about right and wrong or the Law.
Desperation causes rationalization and justifications for all types of illegal
activities.

Illegal entry into the United States to work has been allowed to become a
complex issue but I don’t think that it is an unsolvable problem. In my
personal view, we would be off to a good start if the Government imposed
hefty fines on employers who use illegal labor.

The loophole in the current law conveniently allows employers to look the
other way and say that they're not trained to verify the authenticity of
documents.

If you, as a citizen, were to enter the United States with a passport with a
picture that doesn't look like you, you'd be questioned. If you were to enter
Italy, Brazil or any other country under the same circumstances, you might
even be arrested.
Try working illegally in Mexico. You'd be arrested because Mexico has
strict immigration laws. Yet, here, millions of people blatantly steal social
security numbers from people as young as 2 years of age and get away with
it. They work, buy cars, real estate, clothes, food, enjoy parks and recreation,
public schools, health care, peace and enjoyment!

Now, what's wrong with this picture? Everything.

The Government could also implement a central Document Verification

Agency to pre-screen all employment applications and issue approval IDs to
prospective employees. While I don’t think that at the current rate we will
ever have an efficient wall to block intruders, I think that its up to individual
States to implement internal security measures to prevent budgetary and
financial abuses caused by growing illegal populations.

I think its been made clear that we do not want to upset Mexico with border
security and that most people cannot tell the difference between illegal
invasion to work and legal immigration." Therefore, I think its up to each
State to develop internal methods to prevent abuse of tax-based resources.

States shouldn’t provide any form of preferential treatment towards people

who break federal laws. Even if they work and pay taxes. This may be
justifiable in their minds but the fact remains that they are still in the country
illegally. If a person went on an extended vacation and someone broke into
his home, brought in his family and lived there for 3 months, cleaned the
house, watered the lawn, made the beds in the morning and even paid the
mortgage payments for the owner, entering the house was still a crime.
Something groups don’t seem to understand this basic concept and it's time
for IQ tests.

At the end of the day, every human being is just another person trying to do
the best he or she can to have a better economic life. But at what cost? My
life shouldn’t be improved at your expense, should it? We all have to play by
the rules to enjoy prosperity and continued growth as a nation.

Every game has rules and these rules are there for a reason: to avoid chaos
and abuse. In soccer, we give yellow and red cards to those who blatantly
break the rules of the game. A red card means a player is expelled for
breaking the rules. The same should apply to illegal entry into the country or
taking illegal advantage of unauthorized employment and abuse of public
resources.

Going back almost a couple of hundred years to justify present illegal entry
conditions is nothing but a form of rationalization for wrongdoing. The
British Empire no longer owns the U.S. as a Colony. They can’t claim
ownership today because they once owned this land before. Neither can the
descendants of Columbus.

As far as Mexico is concerned, we won the Mexican War and purchased the
territories for $15 Million Dollars. It's over. The land has been ours for a
long time now. The argument that this land is theirs is flawed at best.
Previous homeowners cannot claim ownership of a house they sold years in
the past.

Compassion and justice intermix, which brings me to the thrust of this

article: considering illegal immigration pros and cons, does the end justify
the means? Should compassion outweigh legal justice? What will happen to
society if millions of 'undocumented' unlawful immigrants continue to
colonize the United States?

Are illegal immigrants from Mexico, Central and S. America fleeing civil
wars, repression, religious persecution, genocide and dictatorships? Or are
they just heading north primarily for economic reasons?

Where should compassion be more appropriately placed?

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