Illegal Immigration Research Paper: Migration Into The United States

Vlad Bakhmetyev
Burchett/5
Illegal Immigration Research Paper
Migration into the United States is often looked at as a privilege to those in search of a better life. However, migrating to the U.S. illegally is extremely detrimental to the government eroding State and Government funds. As a result, schools and hospitals all over the United States literally go bankrupt and get shut down. Clearly, illegal aliens cost the U.S. a great amount of money that could be allocated towards other funds for the benefit of its citizens. An estimated $2.5 billion a year is spent on their Medicaid, as well as another annual $12 billion dollars spent on primary and secondary school education for illegal kids, in addition some $1.6 billion is annually spent…show more content…
Justice Department report from 2009 estimates that the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles has a membership of some 30,000 to 50,000 with 80% of them being illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America (End). Its main source of income is street-level distribution of cocaine, marijuana, and to a lesser extent, heroin and methamphetamine. Gang members also commit assault, auto theft, carjacking, drive-by shootings, extortion, homicide, identification fraud, and robbery (End). It is estimated that $1.6 billion is spent on the incarceration of criminal immigrants annually and to add to that, an estimate of about one third of all local, state, and federal prisons consist of illegal immigrants who have committed a crime somewhere in the U.S. (Center). Consequently, the Mexican drug cartel has been reported to have gotten so powerful that Border Patrol agents are outgunned and outmanned, leaving them helpless and making no attempt to interfere with the Mexican’s illegal operations…show more content…
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