Journal Entry 9

Mingdong Chen

Freshman composition

Ms. Nargiza Matyakubova

2 November 2013

Journal Entry # 9

                           Illegal immigration drills a hole on the bottom of economy

                     In the article “America Must Take Stronger Measures to Halt Illegal immigration” by Michael Scott, it analytically demonstrates that neither the local police nor Los Angeles Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) shows much concern about the flows of illegal immigration (Michael 1), this may causes the gradually increasing illegal immigrants to steal into America, so the author eagerly appeals to the government for rigorous measures against the activity of illegal immigration. He also points out that the great amount of illegal immigrants all apply for health care, social welfare, and food stamps so on, illegal immigrant students educate at a high cost to the taxpayers annually, all of these gradually make the horrendous social costs just keep rising ceaselessly.( Michael 4). And I also strongly agree with this idea, because there are lots of supportive evidences show author’s point of view and back author’s standpoint.

                     Government pays high social costs to illegal immigrants’ living. There are continuously huge amount of illegal immigrants crossing the border of America yearly, the author states that those people illegally come for the purpose of better living condition, actually they work in the worst environment condition all of us. So the illegal immigrants begin to apply for all kinds of social welfare to support their daily life, such as Health Care, Food Stamps, retirement pension and so on. And their children’ costs of births and education are also covered by government. According to the article, it definitely points out that the state of California pay about $2.2 billon to educate the illegal immigrant K-12 students annually, and that money comes from its taxpayers, so we now can guess how much payment should America’s government of 50 states budget for education program yearly, it is approximately 100 billion! What’s more, taxpayers subsidize 96000 illegal immigrants births in statewide county hospital at yearly cost of $352 million, the food stamps yearly cost of $552 million for new born citizen children, $577 million cost to incarcerate those illegal alien felons, finally plus yearly $60 million health care cost for all kinds of services, so it makes government pay high cost for illegal immigrants instead of getting benefit from them

                     By looking at the above information, illegal immigrants act as if a termite bites out a hole on the bottom of wooden economy, which make a terrible role in the development of economy. So like Michael Scott says, America should unhesitatingly takes measures to strengthen its border enforcement to stop the flows of illegal immigrants and enforce immigration laws to prosecute those employers who hire illegal immigrants,

                     In conclusion, the illegal immigration makes a negative role in American economic development. Government has got to pay huge amount of costs for most of them. Therefore we should strongly appeal to government to take more measures to control the illegal immigration to improve its development of economy.