To The Future

To whomever this may concern,

I can only imagine how the world you live in must be. The decisions my generation made would take miracles to recover from. The thought of how miserable this country must be is almost unbelievable. Your future is not all that it could have been, because of the mistakes that my generation has let happen. Illegal immigration has locked your generation in a struggle for happiness and success.

Illegal immigration may be one of my generation’s biggest problems. Millions of illegal immigrants for countries all over the world come into this country and take jobs from American citizens. These jobs that Americans need to support their families are stolen away from them by people who have never given anything to this country. The year now is 2008. There is over 20 million illegal immigrants in this country. There have been nearly 10 million jobs taken by illegal immigrants from the United States citizens. The cost of illegal immigrant children to the country in grades K-12 is over 12 billion dollars since 2001(Immigration Counters). These numbers do not lie. This country is suffering from the mass number of illegal immigrants entering it. There have been 1,869,630 children born on this countries soil by illegal immigrants. This means that 1,869,630 new citizens to the United States must be taken care of legally. In this country at this time, people feel that illegal immigration is a good thing. These people feel that illegal immigrants take all the jobs that United States citizens do not want. The United States unemployment rate is 5.1 percent according to the United States bureau of labor statistics. The jobs this country has to fill are not being filled by the people of this country. The jobs that could help to lower our unemployment rate and raise our countries HDI (Human Development Index) are being given to people who snuck themselves into this country to avoid living by this country rules. These illegal immigrants enter this country, take its money, and break its laws only to be deported back to the country in which they came from. Since 2003, there have been over 7,500 arrests of alien child sex offenders (Immigration Counters). This Issue is tearing this country apart and it makes me wonder how it has developed in your day.

After the election of McCain, I feel that the only way this country can go is down. The idea to pardon all illegal immigration is one of the worst ideas of any leader of this country. The majority of this country in 50 years will be illegal immigrants if McCain held up to his platform to America. This number is outrageous. The things that illegal immigrants can do to hurt this country have been shown in great detail in my time. A day you now most likely have off from school as a memorial, September 11, 2001, is a day I unfortunately was alive for. A massive attack on the United States was conducted and took hundreds of Americans lives. What most people do not know is that 3 out of the 4 terrorists on that plane were in this country illegally. In a 2006 Homeland Security report some startling news was revealed to the American public. "The report reveals that 45,008 aliens from countries on the U.S. list of state-sponsors of terror or from countries that protected terrorist organizations and their members were released into the general public between 2001 and 2005, even though immigration officers couldn't confirm their identity" (USillegalimmigrants.com).

The country is going downhill fast it and the way it’s looking your generation will be at rock bottom. There are a few options out there now that you can try to fix this situation that we so recklessly placed you in. One option is attrition through enforcement. There are three very important things this country could do to make this mass number of illegals lower vastly. The first thing is to step up the border control. That is if this country even has borders anymore due to the presidents in the last 50 years. If you can cut the head off the snake, then you can eliminate the problem. By this I mean if you can stop the illegal immigrants from entering the country, then you will not have to worry about getting them out of the country. The second option is deportation of any illegal alien who commits egregious crimes. If we can get rid of the dangerous illegal immigrants it will save this country money and stop major drug trafficking. The last thing you can do is ask the illegal’s to leave back to their own countries. When they refuse, and they will, cut off all benefits offered to illegals. These include denying those jobs, health services, and government programs that refuse to leave. These are all main ideas stated by Federation for American Immigration Reform. Other more radical groups feel that illegal immigrants should be hunted down and deported back to the country in which they came from.

The future could be a very dangerous place to live in because of the mistakes my generation has made. The illegal immigrant problem may have already consumed the country. In all actuality I may be speaking to an illegal immigrant right now. There is a good chance that by now the illegal aliens have taken over the government and the true natives of this country are now the immigrants. Looking back on history, the Native Americans accepted the British from another country. Then the British killed off or shipped out all those who were reckless enough to let them into their country. I hope for your sake that you look back on history and learn, or else history is doomed to repeat itself upon you.