Amnesty As A Cause?

Amnesty as a Cause:

The first argument of anti-amnesty proponents is that amnesty encourages people from poor nations to seek a safe haven in the United states as a basis for illegal immigration. For instance, the Mexican immigrant issues is one of the most current conflicts between border states, such as Texas, which anti-amnesty advocates argue is a burden to the functionality of the local state government:

Although it doesn’t take a doctorate to understand that amnesty encourages illegal immigration, Texas had submitted written testimony from Harvard Ph.D. Karl Eschbach, a former demographer for the state and an expert in racial demographic trends, ethnic health disparities, and illegal immigration (Smith para.3).

In Texas, the financial burden of paying for illegal immigrant health care is perceived as a burden, because many illegal immigrants do not pay taxes to pay for these services as a American citizens. More so, Texas provides an example of the disconnect between citizens that pay their fair share of taxes, and those that do not, such as illegal immigrants, as a burden to the state treasury: “With Texas paying out nearly $1.7 billion over the last two years in uncompensated health care linked to illegal aliens, the state needs this kind of expertise: (Smith para.3). This argument demands that illegal aliens be deported because they are not “carrying” the tax burden that American citizens must pay for health care.

Many anti-amnesty advocates define an increasing trend in the criminality of illegal immigrant populations as a result of deregulation in the flow of immigrants coming into the United States. More so, the illegal status of the immigrant is also an extension of the financial burden on state and federal resou...

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...ty of illegal aliens in the country. Historically, the Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) was a crucial turning point in the treatment of illegal immigrants, which allowed them a pathway to citizenship as a means of integrating them into American society and economic life. Also, the reduction of crime in the United states since the 1990s by illegal immigrants defines the illogical assumptions of anti-amnesty advocates that claim a criminal status for these individuals. Therefore, the myth of increased crime is only based on the “misdemeanor “ charge of illegal entry into the United States, but it does not convey a broader crime wave scenario as envisioned by alarmist anti-amnesty advocates. This is why amnesty is a cure for illegal status for immigrants, which can be remove the stigma of criminal identity that has wrongfully been placed on illegal immigrants.