Illegal Immigration Reforms and Laws in The U.S.

"One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality." This is a quote from Allen West a United States Representative and former military lieutenant who is heavily involved in illegal immigration reforms and laws in the U.S. Illegal immigration in the U.S has become an enormous problem in the past several years. In 2011 alone it was reported that 11.5 million illegal immigrants were reported to be living in the United States (Britz, Batalova, 2013). Half of the Mexican, Hispanic, and Central American immigrants are illegal. Within the United States11 percent of the illegal immigrants in the US are from Europe, Africa, and Canada (Immigration and Illegal Immigration, n.d). The population of illegal immigrants has increased drastically throughout the past few years. Along with the population of Hispanic illegal immigrants increasing there has also been an increase in Hispanic illegal immigrants being involved in cartels, illegal crimes, and welfare.

To start Mexican cartels have been controlling illegal operations in the American southwest, Mexico and Central America, and other places across North and South America. They usually smuggle drugs and guns and are also involved in other brutal crimes and killings(Meyer, 2009). The first Mexican cartel was established in the 1980's, since then hundreds of cartels have formed in and around Mexico (Five Most Famous Drug Cartels, n.d.). Now these cartels have gotten involved with human smuggling and trafficking. They will smuggle illegal immigrants into the US, usually in return for these alien...

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