Illegal Immigration DebatePro Side

Presented by

Kevin Mohr and Kevin Manzer

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We obviously cannot argue for something that is illegal therefore we will be arguing as to why we think immigration should be legalized or the number of immigrants allowed in to our country should be increased.

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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to

breathe free,The wretched refuse of your

teeming shore.Send these, the homeless,

tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden

door!"

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Ellis Island Immigration Statistics

1855-1890 8 million

1892-1954 12 million

Illegal Immigration Statistics2003 Estimates 8 to 12 million people

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1)Can we stop illegal immigration and how much would it cost?

2,000 mile border between the U.S. and Mexico

•Cost of securing this borderSecurity Fence- $4-8 billion dollars

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•Increasing Border Patrol- 2x or adding 10,000 agents $1.7 billion (not counting court, detention, and other misc. costs)

•Estimated that BP catches 1 of 4 illegal immigrants that enter the country.

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How illegals get into the country

•Tunnels

•Smuggled

•Hike

•Temporary Visas

The security fence and increasing border patrol agents would perhaps not stop illegal immigration at all.

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Why we should allow these immigrants into the country.

First Point:  Illegal immigrants do not steal jobs.  We, as a capitalist society are free to GIVE jobs to whomever we want.  If illegals work for less, that mean that the product is produced cheaper, which give more money to the owner to put back into the economy.

Second point:  Illegal immigrants do not suck up tax dollars, welfare, or social security.  They are not eligible for welfare until they have been here for five years.  During those five years, they work, which means that hey pay income tax and sales tax.  Most put into social security but do not use it because they go back home.

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How many of you eat beef? How many of you eat fruit? These are only a few of the things that are sold at a lower cost to you the consumer because of cheap immigrant labor.

How many of you want to work in an orchard all day in extreme heat bending over thousands of times to pick fruit?

How many of you want to work in a meat packing plant?

References• Controlling the Borders. TracImmigration. 21. Mar. 2008.

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/index.html

• Elbel, Fred. Illegal immigration invasion numbers analysis. Desert Invasion - U.S. 22, Mar. 2008. http://www.desertinvasion.us/data/invasion_numbers.html

• Illegal Immigration. Center for Immigration Studies. 23, Mar. 2008. http://www.cis.org/topics/illegalimmigration.html

• Meyers, Linda. U.S. underestimates jobs lost to outsourcing, labor experts assert. 21 Oct. 2004. 28 Mar. 2008. http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/10.21.04/outsourcing_jobs.html

• US-Mexico Border Fence / Great Wall of Mexico Secure Fence. Homeland Security. 09 Mar. 2007. 21 Mar. 2008. http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/mexico-wall.htm