Illegal Immigration Social Issue

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Introduction This paper aims to provide a discussion on a social problem that is relevant in today’s society. Chosen for discussion, the study will attempt to determine whether illegal immigration is a social problem. Illegal immigration is defined as the relocation of people across national frontiers in a way that disrupts the immigration laws of a stated country. In America for instance, the number of illegal immigrants has reached a high of approximately 11.2 million in 2012. One of the biggest dilemmas caused by illegal immigrants are that they pose increased threats of terrorism and crime into a country. While not every immigrant is a diabolical person, patterns of illegal relocation have increased a country’s risks of unknowingly harboring

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