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ANTI AMNESTY
FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Period 2
Emilie Hercreg
Melanie Eichhorn
FACTS
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More than 65 million immigrants have come to the United States
legally or illegally.
Since 2000, more than 1 million immigrants a year have entered the
United States legally or illegally.
More than 1/3 of immigrants do not have a high school diploma.
About 350,000 illegal aliens came to the United States in the 1990s
alone.
9-11 million illegal immigrants live in the US.
Majority of illegal aliens live in California, Texas, New York, Florida,
and Illinois.
If current trends continue, our population will double to over half-abillion by the end of the century.
Unauthorized Immigrant Population
States of Residence in US
2000-2008
2000*
Population
2005
Population
2006
Population
2008
Population
All States
8,460,000
All States
10,500,000
All States
11,550,000
All States
11,600,000
1. California
2,510,000
California
2,770,000
California
2,830,000
California
2,850,000
2. Texas
1,090,000
Texas
1,360,000
Texas
1.64 M
Texas
1.68 M
3. Florida
800,000
Florida
850,000
Florida
980,000
Florida
840,000
4. New York
540,000
New York
560,000
Illinois
550,000
New York
640,000
5. Illinois
440,000
Illinois
520,000
New York
540,000
Arizona
560,000
6. New Jersey
350,000
New Jersey
480,000
Arizona
500,000
Illinois
550,000
7. Arizona
330,000
Arizona
470,000
Georgia
490,000
Georgia
460,000
8. North
Carolina
260,000
North
Carolina
380,000
New Jersey
430,000
New Jersey
400,000
9. Georgia
220,000
Georgia
360,000
North
Carolina
370,000
North
Carolina
380,000
10. Nevada
170,000
Nevada
240,000
Washington
280,000
Nevada
280,000
40 other
states
1,750,000
40 other
states
2,510,000
40 other
states
2,950,000
40 other
states
2,950,000
http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000845
%
change
from
2000
37%
14%
54%
5%
19%
70%
25%
109%
14%
46%
65%
69%
IMMIGRATION LAWS
The 1924 National Origins Act limited the
amount of immigrants allowed to enter the
United States.
 The Refugee Act of 1980 allowed more
refugees to come to the United States.
 The Immigration Reform and Control Act of
punished companies that knowingly hired
illegal immigrants and allowed illegal
immigrants already living in the US to become
citizens.
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IMMIGRATION LAWS (CONT.)
The Immigration Act of 1990 raised the number
of immigrants allowed to emigrate to the US by
385,000 people.
 The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996 allowed deportation
for illegal immigrants and rejection for asylum
claims.
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Unauthorized Immigrant Population
Countries of Origin
2000-2008
2000*
http://immigration.proco
n.org/view.resource.php
?resourceID=000845
Population
2005
Population
2006
Population
2008
Population
% change
from 2000**
All Countries
8,460,000
All Countries
10,500,000 All Countries
11,500,000 All Countries
11,600,000
37%
1. Mexico
4,680,000
Mexico
5,970,000
6,570,000
7,030,000
50%
Mexico
Mexico
2. El Salvador
430,000
El Salvador
470,000
El Salvador
510,000
El Salvador
570,000
33%
3. Guatemala
290,000
Guatemala
370,000
Guatemala
430,000
Guatemala
430,000
48%
4. Philippines
200,000
India
280,000
Philippines
280,000
Philippines
300,000
50%
5. China
190,000
China
230,000
Honduras
280,000
Honduras
300,000
88%
6. Korea
180,000
Philippines
210,000
India
270,000
Korea
240,000
33%
7. Honduras
160,000
Korea
210,000
Korea
250,000
China
220,000
16%
8. India
120,000
Honduras
180,000
Brazil
210,000
Brazil
180,000
80%
9. Ecuador
110,000
Brazil
170,000
China
190,000
Ecuador
170,000
55%
10. Brazil
100,000
Vietnam
160,000
Vietnam
160,000
India
160,000
33%
DEPORTATION
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Since the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996, deportation had doubled.
Some feel that if we do not start enforcing immigration
laws and using deportation, then we are rewarding
illegal immigrants for coming to the United States
illegally by giving those jobs and care.
FENCE ON MEXICAN BORDER CONTROVERSY
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/120722
27#12072227
“Because people intuitively understand that, if you grant
amnesty to the 10, or 11 or 12 million, whatever they
are, illegal immigrants already in this country you will
draw tens of millions more from Latin America and
around the world, because the message you'll be
sending is come here illegally and we don't care. We'll
make you a citizen anyway. So—but if you put that fence
up and prevent anybody else from coming in illegally,
then you have more latitude to extend citizenship to the
people already here.”-Carlson
EDUCATION
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The Supreme Court ruled that illegal immigrants must
be granted education by their state. This is costing
the state of California nearly $7 million a year which
does not help our economy.
If 90% of the ESL students are children of illegal
aliens then the education costs for children of illegal
aliens is about $34.5 billion per year.
JOBS
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Illegal immigrants take millions of jobs away
from American workers which hurts our
economy.
http://vodpod.com/watch/2577440-lou-dobbs-on-illegal-immigrants
Top 20 Occupations*
1. Brickmasons, blockmasons and
stonemasons
2. Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers
and tapers
3. Roofers
4. Miscellaneous agricultural workers
5. Helpers, construction trades
6. Dishwashers
7. Construction laborers
8. Maids and housekeeping cleaners
http://i
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con.org
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eID=00
0845
9. Cement masons, concrete finishers and
terazzo workers
10. Packaging and filling machine
operators and tenders
11. Grounds maintenance workers
12. Packers and packagers, hand
13. Butchers, poultry and fish processing
workers
14. Carpet, floor, and tile installlers and
finishers
15. Painters, constuction and
maintenance
16. Parking lot attendants
17. Chefs and head cooks
18. Sewing machine operators
19. Refuse and recyclable material
collectors
20. Cooks
Other "unauthorized" occupations**
All other occupations
Total, Civilian Labor Force (with an
occupation)
% of Unauthorized Immigrants # of Unauthorized Immigrant
in Total Work Force
Workers
Total # of All
Workers
40%
131,000
325,000
37%
94,000
255,000
31%
76,000
246,000
30%
269,000
910,000
28%
28%
27%
52,000
101,000
556,000
184,000
364,000
2,055,000
27%
417,000
1,555,000
27%
29,000
109,000
26%
96,000
369,000
25%
24%
356,000
119,000
1,413,000
504,000
23%
71,000
305,000
22%
68,000
306,000
22%
173,000
791,000
21%
20%
20%
21,000
75,000
49,000
100,000
377,000
248,000
19%
22,000
112,000
19%
427,000
2,219,000
9%
3,120,000
34,979,000
2%
1,928,000
106,407,000
5%
8,258,000
154,135,000
JOBS (CONT.)
They used to work jobs such as farm labor and
cleaning hotel rooms now they are spreading to
jobs formally worked by Americans such as
construction, fast food, and retail.
 They’re taking summer jobs from high school
and collage students who are American
citizens.
 There are 13 million illegal aliens in our country
and millions of them illegally working our jobs
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ECONOMIC BURDEN
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If an illegal immigrant gets seriously injured,
they would probably go to a hospital to get
treated. Even though they are illegal, hospitals
are required to provide care to any person that
walks through the hospital doors. When the
illegal immigrant has no insurance or money to
pay, the United States taxpayers pay for this
illegal immigrants injury. Is this fair?
AMERICAN SAFTEY
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Many illegal immigrants obtain a drivers license by using fake documentation. Some
states require that drivers pay for car insurance. However, some illegal aliens cancel
their car insurance because they cannot afford it. Most illegal aliens are paid
minimum wage and cannot afford car insurance and a well working car. This causes
these illegal immigrants to be more prone to car accidents.
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Since the terrorist attack on 9/11, many Americans have been worried that our
border is too open and that it is very easy for people to just enter the United States.
“The national security demands that we know who is living within our borders,
especially since 9/11.”
- Senator John Cornyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WuOvCKC9Qs&feature=related
DRUGS
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Federal investigators believe that as much as 2.2 million kilograms of
cocaine and 11.6 kilograms of marijuana were smuggled into the United
States via the Mexican border in 2005.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports that the Mexican drug
syndicates operating today along our Nation’s Southwest border are far
more sophisticated and dangerous than any of the other organized criminal
groups in America’s law enforcement history.
In North Carolina the DEA reports “a significant increase in drug-trafficking
activity”.
Mexican drug trafficking organizations usually use illegal immigrants in the
U.S. to transport cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin into
and throughout the country.
Mexican criminal groups are also increasing their involvement in retail drug
distribution.
ANCHOR BABIES
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An anchor baby, as known as “a jackpot baby” is a child born
in the U.S. by illegal immigrants. This child automatically
becomes a U.S. citizen. Their illegal families are suddenly
able to ‘anchor’ onto the benefits of that child and get
approved for public housing, free rent, food stamps,
Medicaid, unemployment, Earned Income Credit, and a lot of
other benefits, including the automatic citizenship of the
parents once the child becomes an adult. The reason anchor
babies get to become U.S citizens is because of the 14th
amendment which states: "All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction there of, are
citizens of the United States and of the State where in they
reside.“
ANCHOR BABIES CONT.
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It’s not fair that a legal American family with a sick
child and can’t afford the medical bills it needs to
keep their child healthy. But at the same time isn’t
eligible for Medicaid because they make $1.00 an
hour. But, if their baby had been born an
immigrant, they would have automatically been
eligible for Medicaid. What kind of message is
this? Law-abiding parents cannot get medical help
for their children who desperately need it but all
an immigrant child has to do is be blessed with
illegal immigrant parents.
GOVERNMENT
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“to the president: if you want to deliver on your
unwavering commitment to immigration reform,
write a bill,” the senator said “You write the bill,
send it to the House. See what happens,
because I don’t think you have much of a
chance of getting it through the Senate.”