Immigration is a widely discussed topic. Illegal immigration and granting citizenship to undocumented immigrants is a controversial issue. Many believe that immigrants benefit the economy and brings needed skills to the workplace. Others think that illegal immigrants should be detained and deported for entering the country illegally. Some even think that trying to deport immigrants is not a good use of the nation´s resources. There are many viewpoints and opinions for this controversy because the solution to this problem will affect everyone in some way.
According to Max Ehrenfreund, “President-elect Donald Trump told "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl that he will deport as many as 3 million undocumented immigrants after he takes office
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According to Ron Nixon, poorer nations are often reluctant to take back violent offenders because they have limited resources to deal with them.The government can’t detain an immigrant indefinitely solely on the fact that their country will not take them back. More than 100 of the immigrants released by the government have later been charged in homicides. In one of the most recent examples, Jean Jacques, a Haitian immigrant, was sentenced in June of 2016 to 60 years in prison for the murder of Casey Chadwick, a 25-year-old woman from Norwich, Conn, according to Nixon. Haitian officials blocked the transfer because they said Mr. Jacques could not prove that he was a citizen. Records recently released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency responsible for deportations, show that more than 8,000 immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States have been set free here since 2013. Experts say“the federal government has a number of options to persuade countries to take back their citizens.” But a 2004 study by the Government Accountability Office found that the department had used that option just once, in 2001 against the South American nation of Guyana. The State Department declined to say whether it had denied visas in this manner since 2004. There is a growing problem in the U.S. with deporting immigrants guilty of crimes, due to their native countries' refusal to take them