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Our nation’s philosophy of God-given rights attracts the illegal immigrants. “From our nation’s founding until 1965, America understood that immigration is a privilege, not an unalienable right—and that this nation may properly regulate immigration in its own interest” (Grigg). Their entry into this country is conditional on their abilities to be a beneficial citizen. However, today’s illegal immigrants are not benefiting the U.S. American communities bordering Mexico have been adversely affected by illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants have increased instances of litter, property vandalism, crime, drug smuggling, and other problems.
While immigrants come from around the world, Mexican immigrants are the cause of most the problems the U.S. has today. Regardless of the category illegal immigrants are in, they cause job displacement for American citizens; they do not pay taxes but use taxpayer-funded services. These problems come mainly from our southwestern border with Mexico. There isn’t a single other place on earth where a nation as rich as the U.S. shares a border with a country as poor as Mexico.
Consider Douglas, Arizona. Susan McConnell and her husband Tom live just eight blocks from the international boundary that separates Douglas, Arizona, from the Mexican city of Agua Prieta. For years men have illegally crossed the border on their way north looking for work. Mrs. McConnell said she frequently saw them pass through town in pairs or in small groups. Then about two years ago the trickle grew to a flood with groups of thirty to well over a hundred people at a time pouring across the border, hurrying through alleys, through people's yards and between their homes, climbing over roofs and scrambling over graves in the cemetery. They knocked down fences, trampled flowers and shrubs, and cluttered neighborhoods with litter. They came in groups all day long and in a steady stream throughout the night while...