Beware! America is being invaded by aliens! Not the little, green, Martian type you see in
science fiction movies, but the real thing. Im talking about the illegal type who come in
every day and every night, by land and by sea. Estimates have shown that as many as
500,000 illegal aliens make it across the border every year (Morganthau 67). Illegal
immigration causes many problems in the United States, including economic problems,
crime, education disputes, and overcrowding. All of these problems were already
damaging our country and illegal immigration has made them much, much worse. Let me
begin to explain the problem with a story. A woman named Xiomara T. escaped Nicaragua
in 1991 to escape the violence afflicting her country (Jost, Feb. 3, 1995). She slipped
across the Mexican-American border easily one night without papers guaranteeing her
legal status which would give her all the rights she needed. She made it into California
with no problems from the border patrol, whose duty is to keep illegal aliens out of our
country. In California, Xiomara got a job working for about four dollars an hour, even
though her employer knew she was illegal. A few years later, she became pregnant and
Wyatt 2 received virtually free prenatal care through a government-funded public health
clinic. Now she receives free medical aid for herself and her child through Medicaid
because her child is an “American-born” citizen. When her child is old enough, Xiomara
told sources she planned to enroll him in the public school system. She and her child
receive all of this aid for free, although she doesnt pay a dime in taxes through her
“under-the table” job. She is just one of the typical illegal aliens who found the “good life”
for free and without the right to even be here. Too many illegal immigrants like Xiomara
are causing economic problems in the American society by taking away jobs from
American-born citizens. By increasing the supply of labor and settling for low wages,
illegal aliens take away the jobs from Americans and force down the wages of those who
withhold their jobs (Leone, ed., 1995, 8). This is unfair to Americans because they are the
ones who deserve the positions, yet 7.6 percent of the United States population is
unemployed (Leone, ed., 1994, 96). A large mass of them is unemployed because of those
immigrants who take away their jobs. American employers who hire the aliens in the first
