America needs to crack down on illegal immigration.

My primary argument is that illegal immigration is in the interest of both parties. The impact of a crack down will help no one. The life of an illegal immigrant is rarely economically good or stable. These people have a need to come here. We would be unnecessarily hurting many good and hard working people. The economic affect on them would be hard. We know why they immigrate. It's because of very tough circumstances. Immigration is a choice but very often it is a choice between extreme poverty or poverty. These people have not cruel intentions and are no harm to our country. People overseas already see the U.S. as a bad or evil country for a number of reasons. By adding a "crack down" on illegal immigration as an act by the U.S. which hurt foreigners we would be viewed as an even worse nation then we already are viewed as. It is in our best interest to refrain from acts which would be seen as xenophobic to the outside (outside of the U.S., not meant as an offensive remark) world. Rebuttal and my economic arguments: The health care for illegal immigrants does cost millions of dollars each year for the U.S. but that cost is relatively minor and insignificant compared to their economic contribution. The U.S. is a rich society reliant on cheap labor, often foreign, or located overseas. The U.S. does not have a large enough low class population to sustain the upper and middle classes so if there was a sudden "crack down" the U.S. poor class would grow and the upper/middle classes would shrink. Do we not want to keep our luxurious life style? For example this summer there was a lack of labor in the agricultural industry in the North-west. The fragile agricultural industry needs cheap labor (young, immigrant, or poor for minimum or below minimum wage) to continue production. This summer during the harvesting season for many fruits there was a lack of cheap labor resulting in a lot of unpicked fruit. This is a large waste of production. The cause of this problem was a combination of a lack of labor and the fear of hiring illegal immigrants due to recent "crack downs". No Americans took the opportunity to work in the agricultural industry. The Mexicans had not taken "the jobs of hardworking americans." Recently I have heard a fact regarding the social security system. Illegal immigrants often use fake social security numbers to find work. Using those fake numbers they pay social security taxes through their job. This money goes to the government. It is nearly impossible and very rare for people to use fake social security numbers to collect social security. This is a one way flow of cash for the government. As we know the social security system is in a precarious position regarding the cash flow. As the baby boomers retire the new generations can not sustain their retirement resulting in a huge deficit. It has been predicted that the system will collapse in coming decades. The added income (but no expense) from illegal immigrants has sustained the social security system and even prevented the system from collapsing already. There are added costs, particularly in the health care sector of the government but a "crack dow" will also cost a lot of money. The government will either pay health care for the immigrants and receive added income in social security from the immigrants or spend money to "crack down" on the immigrants and lose their added income in social security. Then after these government costs are accounted for the combination of an earlier social security collapse and a shrinking of the upper and middle class would result in a huge economic impact. Would that not have a bigger impact on our lives then the health care costs in the "millions" (Just to be nice....I think it's actually closer to a few billion the same cost as a "crack down") We help no one with "crack down".