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Unit IV Research Paper Outline: Illegal Immigration

Rodney Martinez

Illegal Immigration

2/15/16

Illegal immigration is the act of living in a country without government permission. This offense is a serious crime that needs to be taken as a crime that puts citizens at great risk involving violence hence should not be regarded as a misdemeanor or in other words a mere civil infraction. To begin with, illegal immigration is an improper entry into a country which is a crime under most federal laws and which is punishable not more than six months which is an action that appears too fair for this type of offense which puts individuals of the country at a very high risk.

Although most of the illegal immigrants may enter a foreign country in search of employment opportunities and also better opportunity economically, they pose a great danger to the national security in terms of terrorist’s attacks who always blend into the country population but their motive being targeting the public through terrorist crimes (Shelley et al, 2013). Looking at this rationale makes it risky taking illegal immigration as a mere civil infraction by offering the aliens legal status who later turn back and interfere with the security of the public. Therefore the government should stop condoning this crime as a minor wrongdoing or else the country will forever face the same problem of insecurity.

Another reason in support of proper penalty to illegal immigration is that it interferes with the plan of a country by contributing to high population growth dramatically resulting to crowding in various communities. Some of these areas include places such as schools, limited housing and also scramble for natural resources for instance energy, water not forgetting forestland. Using the statistics of United States, it has been estimated that population of illegal aliens is increasing at the rate of estimated half million aliens per year (Shelley et al, 2013). This is why the federal law should increase the penalty of this crime in order to be able to control economic plan and population of the country.

Last but not least, this offense has been taken as a mere infraction yet it highly contributes to crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking. Commercial sex workers and opportunities for wanted criminals to seek hide outs in foreign countries who later come and wreak havoc on innocent citizens (Williams, 2012). Taking illegal immigration as a serious offense will bring a lot of change in the country by making immigrants abide by the strict penalties or go back to their country.

Work Cited

Mark Shelley et al, (2013). American Government and Politics Today: Essentials 2013-1014 Edition. Cengage Learning. Pp. 474-481.

Phil Williams, (2012). Illegal Immigration and Commercial Sex: The New Slave Trade. Routledge. Pp. 79-83.

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