illegal immigrants

My partner conceded her point by not responding within the alloted time, although I will continue the debate for her sake and for the sake of possibly reaching someone on this issue. Last round I hit the character limit, here are some final arguements and citations. I have continued arguements, but the limit wold not allow me to add them. "so really my words aren't going to matter, just like yours isn't.... whats going to happen is going to happen, and there is nothing we can do about it, But I do think people should lay off the hispancs and stop being so jealous..." We are not jealous, we are enraged. Our money pays for the care of illegal immigrants while they continue to work untaxed. We need to fix the problem of illegal immigrants before it brings the decline of our nation into sight. Yet again, Hispanics are not always illegal immigrants. "yes they drive new cars, yes their grocery buggies are more full than yours, yes they smile a lot, and they are happy....but it is only because they works their asses off... so if you have a problem with jealous, change your ways if you envy them..... work harder.... BUT FOR GODS SAKE LEAVE THEM ALONE......" You suggest that people work harder; although the problem is that most citizens cannot afford to live on the wages paid to illegal immigrants (They do not drive new cars or have "more full grocery buggies"). Illegal immigrants are hired because their extremely low hourly rage, and undying effort; although they take away American money, causing us problems in the long run. In conclusion, I'd like to state that illegal immigration is a growing problem for America. If America is expected to sustain itself as a leading power in the world illegal immigration must be stopped. Citation (If you provide evidence, could you cite it?): (1)http://www.heritage.org... (2)http://www.foxnews.com... (3)http://www.freedomworks.org... (4)http://immigrationcounters.com... (5)James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, 2000, p. 195-196, (6)http://www.globalissues.org... Now to my new arguments In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year. (1) Among the key finding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals. (1) Few Americans comprehend the various impacts and financial costs of illegal migration into the United States. Like a cancer, it enters the body while proliferating until, at some point, it compromises, then destroys the integrity of surrounding tissue. Illegal "migration" encroaches on legal American taxpayers who work honestly within their system. (2) With more than 20 million illegal aliens working and living in the United States today, that malignancy spreads out of control in every state where a sizable population of aliens congregates. (2) According to the well-respected U.S. Center for Immigration Studies (www.cis.org), incarcerated convicted illegal aliens make up 29 percent of federal, state and local prisons at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. This number doubles when the costs for apprehension, the justice system, public defenders, interpreters, prosecutors and the courts add to the total.(2) Why we cannot have open borders: Business interests however are short-term. Easy immediate access to labour will always be preferred to the costs of training and capital investment for the longer term. In the nature of economic cycles, yesterday's essential labour can often become, as the defunct factories and mills of Europe have shown, today's unemployed. Employers who demanded immigrant labour are not held to account for this or required to contribute to subsequent costs of their unemployed former workers. Few things are more permanent that temporary worker from a poor country. If business were made responsible for the lifetime costs of their migrant labour in the same way as they must now deal with the lifetime environmental costs of their products, perhaps enthusiasm for labour migration might be moderated and make way for longer-term investment in capital-intensive restructuring. (3) In the end, the measure to start construction on a 700-mile stretch of fence was passed 80-19 (with only Sen. Edward Kennedy abstaining). (4) This is a good first step. This is a problem at home that has gotten out of hand. This free flow of people illegally entering the country is a threat to our security and our resources. (4) Trust me, I've heard all the arguments in the book. "They do the work Americans won't do" is my favorite. Have you asked Americans? Do you know they won't do it? Have you given them the chance to do it? (4) Seventy-five percent of the drugs in the United States come from Mexico, while $80 billion is spent annually on the failed war on drugs. Illegal immigrants make up 30 percent of our prisoners, costing us $1.6 billion annually.(4) Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. (5) With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services. (5) Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them. (5) If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion.(5) Costs increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments. (5) Although legalization would increase average tax payments by 77 percent, average costs would rise by 118 percent. (5) I believe that my significant amount of evidence proves that it is moral to deport illegal immigrants, they are a cancer to our society; causing debt where they come, and paying little for their troubles to our economy. Citation (New ones for this rebuttal): (1)http://usgovinfo.about.com... (2)http://www.newswithviews.com... (3)http://www.cairco.org... (4)http://media.www.kstatecollegian.com... (5)http://www.cis.org...