Current Event: Legalizing Illegal Immigration?

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Is this who the United States citizens want in their neighborhoods?

      The topic of illegal immigration has been a controversial debate for years now.  It seems as though every political candidate has something to say about illegal immigration.  According to Fox News even Job Bush has an opinion on illegal immigration.

     "It's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family," Bush said. "I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime. There should be a price paid, but it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families."

     It sounds nice that illegal immigrants just want to support their families.  Those who really do this should come into this country the legal way.  According to the Center for Immigration Studies in its article The Myth of the "Otherwise Law-Abiding" Illegal Alien it discusses how politicians want U.S. citizens to believe that illegal aliens are made up of law abiding people who are only guilty of crossing the boarder illegally. That may be true of some but the majority are not law abiding people.

     Some of the violation from illegals entering the United States include false impersonation of a U.S. citizen, lying to government officials about being a U.S. Citizen, and taking someones social security number to name a few.

     The Obama administration has chosen to ignore these types of illegal criminal activities which the White House has called "administrative amnesty," a sort of prioritization scheme.

     Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta has done and in depth year long survey spanning from 1999 to 2006 on the 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in U.S. and the 700,000 illegal immigrants who come into this country yearly.  She reported that there are about 240,000 illegal sex offenders in the U.S.  These 240,000 illegal aliens have committed about 960,000 sex offenses in the U.S.

     "This translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day," Kauflin said. " Each sex offender averaged 4 victims."

     According to the Center for Immigration Studies households headed in 2002 by illegal aliens has imposed more that $26.3 billion in costs to the federal government. They only paid $16 billion in taxes costing  the U.S. taxpayers $10 billion dollars.
   
     In Los Angeles 95 percent of the outstanding warrants for homicide are attributed to illegal aliens.  In Southern California over 60 percent of the Hispanic gangs are made up of illegal aliens, which numbers tens of thousands.

     Illegal immigration brings drugs, gangs and crime into the U.S.  Why would Jeb Bush over look these statistics?  He should be concerned with wanting the decent illegal alien to come into this country legally and do the right thing and prosper. There are many immigrants who come into this country the legal way and have done well by their families and for themselves.