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Issitt, Micah L.
Walter, Andrew
Immigration Restrictions: An Overview |
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Alien- A person who is not legal in the current country they live in. (legeal terms) |
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Issitt, Micah L.
Walter, Andrew
Immigration Restrictions: An Overview |
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Citizenship- Official "membership" to a country |
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Issitt, Micah L.
Walter, Andrew
Immigration Restrictions: An Overview. |
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Emigration- When a person leaves a place to go somewhere else. |
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Issitt, Micah L.
Walter, Andrew
Immigration Restrictions: An Overview. |
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Immigration- to settle in a country that is not your native country. |
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Issitt, Micah L.
Walter, Andrew
Immigration Restrictions: An Overview. |
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Naturalization- When someone is granted permission of obtaining legal citizenship. |
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Bowman, Jeffrey
Cushman, C. Ames
Counterpoint: Amnesty Promotes Illegal Immigration. |
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From recent data recieved from the Census Bureau, it has been stated that illegal immigrants only paid 16 billion dollars in taxes, but ended up "costing" over 26 billion dollars to the US.
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Bowman, Jeffrey
Cushman, C. Ames
Counterpoint: Amnesty Promotes Illegal Immigration. |
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Another "problem" that illegal immigrants cause in the US is that they affect wages of unskileld workers and they send money to their loved ones back home which affects our economy. |
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Rich, Alex K.
Newton, Heather
Point: A Wall is the Best Way to Protect the U.S. Border. |
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"This is not a moral issue but a legal and physical one, and the fact of the matter is that undocumented aliens are breaking the law by illegally entering the US and will continue to do so unless stopped. While we may sympathize with their plight, our first duty as a nation is to protect ourselves, and a border wall is simply the best way to accomplish this." |
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Rich, Alex K.
Newton, Heather
Point: A Wall is the Best Way to Protect the U.S. Border. |
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According to some specialists, the immigration "problem" had been pressed on by the terrorists attack on the US on September 11, 2011. |
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Rich, Alex K.
Newton, Heather
Point: A Wall is the Best Way to Protect the U.S. Border. |
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"The point of a border wall is not to keep all immigrants out, but merely to control and regulate their passage into the country."
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Rich, Alex K.
Newton, Heather
Point: A Wall is the Best Way to Protect the U.S. Border. |
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The US can scarcely be held responsible for damages foreigners cause to themselves while attempting to break the law, just as a homeowner is not liable if a burglar falls down the stairs while attempting to rob his or her house. |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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"Though most agree that it would be impractical, if not impossible, to deport 12 million undocumented residents, the word "amnesty" itself has become a term of abuse on both sides of the debate." |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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| In the next 43 years, immigrants and their children will account for 60% of the population growth in America. |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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"Contrary to the popular misconception that illegal immigrants are exploiting the nation's economy, studies have shown that undocumented residents actually contribute more in taxes than they cost the country in social services, and that overall, immigration increases the income of US residents by maximizing the extent to which the economy takes advantage of domestic resources. For instance, in 2006 the Texas Comptroller's Office estimated that the approximately 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in the state paid $500 million more in taxes than they received in government services." |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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Most illegal non-residents do not use expensive services due to the fact that they do not have access to the insurance that would cover for the expenses. |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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"Legalizing their status would allow them to use social services in their most cost-efficient forms." |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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| Many people fear that having amnesty with immigrants would put at risk our national security. |
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Pawlick, Peter
Finley, Laura
Point: Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is a Practical and Just Solution. |
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| "Immigration benefits everyone, and Congress should be doing everything in its power to make it as easy as possible for immigrants to live and work legally and freely in the United States." |
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Stevenson, Keira
Grant, Richard A.
Counterpoint: A Stronger Border Patrol Is Not the Best Solution to Illegal Immigration.
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| "Despite grade-school lessons about searching for religious freedom, or political freedom, most people who came to the United States did so in order to make a better living." |
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Stevenson, Keira
Grant, Richard A.
Counterpoint: A Stronger Border Patrol Is Not the Best Solution to Illegal Immigration. |
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| Most illegal immigrants work the jobs that most Americans won't take. |
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Stevenson, Keira
Grant, Richard A.
Counterpoint: A Stronger Border Patrol Is Not the Best Solution to Illegal Immigration. |
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| "Most immigrants have taxes taken from their paychecks to help pay for government services." |
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The Bush Administration met with Mexican officials and discussed motives to prevent illegal immigration into the US. |
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Stevenson, Keira
Grant, Richard A.
Counterpoint: A Stronger Border Patrol Is Not the Best Solution to Illegal Immigration. |
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Illegal immigration could not be stopped by the US alone, but with help of the counterside, the countries that immigrants leave from, making new motives to stay in one's home country. |
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| Apr. 7-11, 2006- Wall Street Journal |
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In 2006,The Wall Street Journal conducted a survey involving 46 economists. 96% of them stated that illegal immigration has benefited the American economy more than it has harmed it. 4% stated that it had done more harm. |
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| Aug. 14, 2011- Jesus Nebot |
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On average, an immigrant will pay $80,000 more in taxes than they used spending on government benefits. |
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Aug. 14, 2011- Jesus Nebot
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| "For example, approximately 13.9% of the nation's undocumented immigrants live in Texas. In 2006, the Texas Comptroller reported that undocumented immigrants paid about $424.7 million more in state revenues – including sales tax and school property tax – than they used in state services, including education and health care." |
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| Mar. 30, 2006- Adam Davidson |
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| "Illegal immigration has both negative and positive impacts on different parts of the economy." |
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| May 31, 2007- Jim Gilchrist, MBA, CPA |
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| "I’m pro-deportation or if you want to use a nicer word, pro-repatriation. You cannot have a defeatist attitude towards the problem and have a solution. The repatriation of illegals must begin with a recognition of the problem and a plan. We may be called names, but the names our grandchildren will call us will be worse when they have to live in a destroyed country. There must be a multi-faceted approach, including arresting illegals and also cutting off social welfare programs to them."- Jim Gilchrist |
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| Dec. 6, 2007- Richard K. Jones, MS |
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-Richard Jones, MS, Sheriff of Butler County in Ohio, in a Dec. 6, 2007 email response to ProCon.org, responded:
"No. For example, there are American senior citizens that should have these benefits and do not because illegal aliens are sucking the system dry. A 'sucking sound' that can be heard around the world. The more people of the world hear of free public services, the more they try to sneak in. This is one of the most important reasons to secure the borders. These services were meant for American citizens."
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| Nov. 30, 2007- Sheldon Rampton |
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-Sheldon Rampton, Research Director at the Center for Media & Democracy, in a Nov. 30, 2007 email response to ProCon.org, provided the following:
"...I think it is both unethical and impractical to attempt to deny them [illegal aliens] access to public services. Some public services, such as bus transportation, subways, water utilities, or highways, are so widely used that denying service to illegal aliens would simply be impractical for cost reasons. Denying access to other public services hurts the entire community. "
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| Spring 2006- Francine J. Lipman, MBA, LLM |
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| "[U]ndocumenteds actually contribute more to public coffers in taxes than they cost in social services... " |
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| Aug. 29, 2006- Ricardo Parra |
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| "Fact: Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for the vast majority of state and federal benefits and are only eligible for those that are considered important to public health and safety." |
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| Feb. 2004- Federation for American Immigration Reform |
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| COUNTERPOINT- "Most illegal aliens have low educational attainment, few skills, and they work for low wages, often in the underground economy where they pay no taxes on their earnings..." |
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| Sep. 4, 2003- John Kerry, JD |
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| "Anyone who has been in this country for five or six years, who's paid their taxes, who has stayed out of trouble, ought to be able to translate into an American citizenship immediately, not waiting." |
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| July 2, 2007- Randy Neugebauer |
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| COUNTERPOINT- "Amnesty is bad policy and sends the message that immigrants are better off breaking our laws rather than respecting them." |
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| Mar. 27, 2006- James Sensenbrenner, Esq., JD |
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| Illegal immirgants should not be able to recieve citizenship because it would be a "slap to the face" to all those who became a citizen legally. |
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| May 31, 2007- Jim Gilchrist, MBA, CPA |
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| If the government offered amnesty to all illegal immigrants, it would be like saying that we do not endorse our own laws and that its easy to break a law. |
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| Feb. 16, 2000- American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) |
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| "Millions of hard-working people who make enormous contributions to their communities and workplace are denied basic human rights because of their undocumented status..." |
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| June 25, 2006 Deseret News article entitled "John Jacob's Responses to News Candidate Questionnaire," |
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| COUNTERPOINT- "In short, amnesty is looking the other way while a crime is being committed." |
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| www.cairco.org website section titled "Issues" (accessed Mar. 5, 2007) |
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| "An amnesty is a reward to those breaking the law." |
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| May 13, 2005- John McCain |
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| "It would be impossible to identify and round up all 10 to 11 million of the current undocumented, and if we did, it would ground our nation's economy to a halt. |
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| July 5, 2006- Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA |
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| " Even if we wanted to, it would be physically impossible to carry out. If we attempted it – and it would be perhaps the largest round-up and deportation in world history – the social and economic consequences would be devastating. " |
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| Dec. 2004- Michele Waslin, PhD |
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| "Rather than maintaining the existing chaotic, poorly functioning, unfair system, it is critical to create a reformed immigration system that is safe, orderly, and fair." |
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| Nov. 30, 2007- Center for American Progress (CAP) |
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| In order to create a fair and legal immigration system you would need a great balance to keep it. |
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| May 31, 2007- Jim Gilchrist, MBA, CPA |
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| " There must be a multi-faceted approach, including arresting illegals and also cutting off social welfare programs to them." |
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| Jan. 26, 2006- Edwin S. Rubenstein, MA |
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| "The cost of mass deportation according to CAP [Center for American Progress][is] $206 billion over five years ($41.2 billion per year)... [it] is an absurdly large figure..." |
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| "No-one’s Suggesting Mass Deportation—But It Would Pay For Itself," Jan. 26, 2006 - Edwin S. Rubenstein, MA |
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| COUNTERPOINT - "But even if $206 billion was a reasonable cost estimate, mass deportation would be well worth it. Just consider the economic burden illegal aliens impose on the rest of us... Total fiscal benefits of deportation are thus estimated at $51 billion per year... At this rate, mass deportation would pay for itself in about four years. Plus, of course, we’d get America back." |
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"Deportation: As Easy As One, Two, Three," Feb. 24, 1995 - Barbara C. Jordan, JD |
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| COUNTERPOINT - "...deporting aliens is as easy as one, two, three. The next time you hear [U.S. President] George W. Bush or [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Michael Chertoff say how impossible immigration enforcement is, remember this simple formula: one, go to where you know aliens are; two, arrest them; three, deport them." |
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