The Importance Of Immigration Reform

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." So begins the Declaration of Independence, and yet many Americans forget the principles that founded our country. Regardless of what you believe, it is a universal opinion that the nation is in serious need of immigration reform in some shape or way. Obviously, this reform will be meaningless if there is not sufficiently well structured domestic and economic policy to support the nation as a whole. And while the domestic issues are certainly pressing, we must be very careful not to turn our gaze from the other players on the world stage. It is important for us to deal with these problems, not as single issue voters, but as a well-rounded and

According to pewresearch.org, illegal immigrants made up around 3.5% of the US population in the year of 2014, these illegals make up 5.1% of the US work force, and around 52% of them are Mexican. The primary reason illegal immigration is such a problem is that these citizens do not pay taxes and often send money back across the border to impoverished relatives. Immigrationforum.org calculates that we spend an average of 5.05 million USD per day on detaining illegal immigrants, with around 159 USD daily cost to taxpayers for every immigrant detained. In order to address our immigration issues, the US should make immigration easier, which will save millions of taxpayer dollars and allow these immigrants to bring their families across the border, this will allow them to become taxable members of the US work force as well as halting the departure of our currency across our borders. Ultimately however, all of this immigration reform will be utterly pointless if we do not have a solid domestic policy to support