Hausaufgabe vom 11.09.2007

4.) Comment

The United States have such a big increase of crime. On the one hand, this development is caused by the illegal immigrants who are getting criminal to save the possibility to survive. But on the other hand I think there are enough american citizens also being criminal. So in my opinion you can´t say that this increase of crime is just the blame of illegal immigrants.
Besides you can´t hold the illegal immigrants responsible for the ruling unemployment in the USA. For sure they occupy jobs, but I think that this isn´t relevant. Most of the jobs which are taken by immigrants are kinds of jobs which american citizens often don´t want to accomplish. So I think that illegal immigration to the United States of America hasn´t got such a big consequence to the local employment market.
Thirdly illegal immigration doesn´t impair the US economy in such a bad way. Doubtless, the american government has to spent a lot of money on the illegal immigrants in terms of health care etc. . But you also have to consider the more positve effects on economy. By consuming food or other things the illegal immigrants do also strengthen the it. So there is a kind of a balance of expenditures and revenues caused by illegal immigrants.
All in all I think that it is understandable that the United States want to abate the number of illegal immigrants. But I think the "Proposition 187" is the wrong way. It doesn´t accord to the human rights because even if someone is an illegal immigrant you can´t take the responsibility to deny him or her health care, education or welfare services. So I don´t think that it would be legal to achieve it.