Immigrants typically migrate to the United States to escape unbearable poverty. They also seek economic security. Immigrants are a problem in American cities because they tend to live in the same area, creating an economic burden for the local governments. Unfortunately, these local governments bear the burden of covering any medical, welfare or educational needs of illegal immigrants. Proposition 187 makes many incorrect assumptions about immigrants reasons for leaving Mexico.
Immigrants also come to America for better living housing and living conditions.
California attacked the wrong services for illegal immigrants. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol launched the Operation Gatekeeper project on October 1, 1994. The programs target the illegal passage of aliens across specific regions of the border. It seems to me that however impressive the efforts to heighten security along certain sections of the border, immigrants will just cross the border farther east or west of the border patrol. In fact, the heightened border control efforts force illegal immigrants to cross the border in geographically difficult locations.