Close the Gates

The United States is composed to roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants. That is approximately 3.7% of the U.S. population. To give a better illustration of this, if every undocumented immigrant lived in Arizona, they can fill the entire state up twice.Illegal immigration is causing havoc instead of creating prosperity in the U.S.  U.S. citizens lives are at risk due to undocumented immigrants. U.S. citizens, government officials, or other nations citizens who attempt to come to America need to be aware of this crisis. Illegal immigrants create more problems than solutions. However, some may infer illegal immigrants bring fortune to the U.S. Illegal immigrants threaten each citizen's rights that are declared in the Declaration of Independence; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. If this issue isn’t faced directly, than how can the President guarantee prosperity for future citizens if his current citizens aren’t accommodated for.

The solution to illegal immigration population in the U.S, is not allowing any more immigrants to come into the U.S. The U.S. needs to focus its attention first within the borders before expanding outwards.The U.S. has been involved in many historically events, some ending with trumpish and others with grief. Through the countless years, the U,S, has accumulated a debt that seems to grow instead of shrink. Ed Butowsky states, “ We currently have a national debt of $18 trillion, on which we have to pay interest”( Butowsky 1).The United States owes an enormous amount of money, yet the President wants to continue to let illegal immigrants to come into the nation and cause more debt. In the U.S, there are countless people struggling to make ends meet. Yet, the President wants to keep bringing more people in. The illegal immigrants will just be put in high rate crime neighborhoods where drugs and violence will corrupt them and soon the illegal immigrants will be the criminals. In the New York Times, the article “ Immigration Enriches You and me”, Nicholas Kristof states, “ If these migrants are given work permits and brought into the system, they will contribute $45 billion over five years in payroll taxes to the United States economy, according to the Center for American Progress” ( Kristof 2). Kristof statement does sound appealing, however, there is still the cost of living and other expenses the nation must pay to have the illegal immigrants which still doesn't add up to the nation’s economy benefiting.

Each illegal immigrant that comes to the U.S. came for the same reason why U.S. is such a great nation; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Illegal Immigration Population creates diversity the U.S. while culturally enriching this nation. With thousands of immigrants coming from all across the world, each ethnicity that resides within brings something new to strengthen this great nation that originated by illegal immigrants from Europe. Additionally, illegal immigrants have proved to be hard workers while doing the jobs that most American citizens would not want to do. These immigrants brings revenue to the nation while being the foundation to the nation since many of the jobs these immigrants process range from construction to farming.

The focus needs to be drawn more on the current citizens of the United States of America. Illegal immigrants bring more cons than pros such as diseases, terrorism, and revolt. It may be inhumane to restrict homeless, terrified immigrants the rightful passage to a new life from the pain and suffering they are inducing within their homeland but this country runs through the people by the people. Thus, if the citizens within aren’t happy with their own nations decisions, than the citizens have the right to make officials change those decisions. The United States has helped out many countries for years and look what it has brought; debt. The United States of America needs to close its borders and restrict, at least a couple years, illegal immigrants the passage to America. This will give America time to focus attention on the current citizens and resolve problems within.

The United States of America has struggled for years to control illegal immigrants from trespassing onto this nation's land yet all the nation has done is build bigger walls or hire more security to man those walls. Americans are in fear to live within their own nations borders due to uncertainty of an immigrant's actions. America is still recuperating from the tragic event of 9/11. A terrorist attack that a foreigner planned to dismantle America’s pride. Americans needs to take charge in this action and speak up to government officials that American citizens will not be stepped upon. Allowing immigrants in America without knowing any kind of background of their previous lifestyle prior to entering America is jeopardizing American citizens lives. There needs to a full background check on each individual that tries to come into America and cleared if that individual's intentions of coming in America are for greater good of the United States of America.