New Practices for Illegal Immigration

    The Department of Homeland Security is overhauling deportation practices. Illegal immigration cases will be reviewed by trained officials looking for any individuals that have criminal records or that have been deported from the United States multiple times. Those cases that do not meet either of these criterion are likely be closed in an attempt to deport the more serious offenders and free up the log jam of 300,000 cases that currently exists. The Obama administration states that the number of illegal immigrants deported will not decrease. Instead, the worst and most dangerous offenders will be deported more expediently.
    Those in favor of this alteration would say that, since the worst immigrants will supposedly be thrown out of the United States, the major problems of illegal immigrants will be taken care of. These measures should limit violence from easily slipping over the border to affect American lives. Those illegal immigrants that remain would only be the nice, upstanding illegal immigrants. Proponents would exalt the work ethic and low prices of these illegal immigrants, saying that we could not make do without this cost effective labor pool. Supporters would point out that most citizens of the United States would not choose a more expensive, legal contractor to do some construction they could have completed at a substantially reduced price and equally good quality by a illegal immigrants.
    However, these arguments of support neglect several important facts. For instance, illegal immigrant contractors displace legal contractors who can not compete with prices below minimum wage. Thus the legal workers go out of business, and less citizens are able to earn a living to contribute to the U.S. economy. On a related note, Since they are not documented, illegal immigrants don’t have to contribute taxes to the United States. Regardless of their lack of contribution, illegal immigrants still enjoy the public works and benefits of our tax money. Once they are overlooked by this new system of scanning files for the most dangerous illegal immigrants, they will be de facto citizens without any worry of being deported. Their case will be closed and not likely to ever open again, being lost in the miasma of bureaucratic paperwork.