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e to grant them legal status as a way of increasing the taxes they pay. A third option would be to enforce the law and reduce the size of illegal population and with it costs of illegal immigration.

All three options would be difficult to impose. To reduce the cost illegal immigrants impose would be difficult because they already have households here in the United States and programs that they already use, such as WIC (women infants and children) nutrition program couldn’t be cut. There are also costs that are incurred from the criminal justice system. As illegal immigrants are jailed for crimes they commit in the United States (see Appendix B), it will cost the U.S. to try them. Granting illegal immigrant’s amnesty would increase tax revenue. This would also allow the illegal aliens access to even more programs that they are currently unable to participate in.

One option is to enforce the laws already in place and reduce the number of illegal immigrants that we allow into the United States. This would increase jobs for U.S. born citizens as there would be an increase in jobs for people to work on the borders (Mexico and Canada). That would be for people guarding the border, and for the technology and walls needed to keep illegal immigrants from coming across the border. This would also mean making sure that those on temporary work visa’s don’t stay in the United States permanently. The main thing that would help this process would be to enforce people not to hire illegal immigrants. A program would need to be in place to ensure new hires are authorized to work in the U.S. Those companies who want to hire these illegal immigrants would receive heavy fines.

Any way you look at it, it will cost money. It is just like health care. If you want to change the way we do business, it will always cost money to improve what we have, or overhaul the whole program. The cost of illegal immigration to the federal government alone is estimated at over 10 billion a year (Camarota, 2004) Enforcement of the laws reduces costs, but it is popular with most people in the public.

There are two ways to look at it. If we are to curtail the illegal immigration in the United States we are going to have to work as a nation to enforce policies to ensure that United States citizen’s jobs and wages are kept intact

The other way is to educate and train those illegal immigrants, and make them U.S. citizens. “There are studies that show educating and training immigrants will increase GDP, increase the income of all Americans, increase taxes paid by undocumented immigrants, and increase jobs annually” (Oakford, 2013) (Appendix C).

I think in the end what it comes down to is what would you do? What if you were on the other side of the border and you couldn’t get a work visa, and you couldn’t come across legally to work in the United States? Would you cross the border? Would you do what needed to be done to make sure your family was taken care of? We are privileged to be born in a country with so many opportunities and have a lot of advantages that other countries don’t have. There are ways to go about legally coming to this country to work and better your livelihood. Some people won’t make the quota to get into the country or not be technically proficient, or just smart enough to be able to work in the United States. If those opportunities weren’t available, how many of us would say