By No other presidential candidate has received as much public attention as Donald Trump.
Trump, a real estate mogul and billionaire, announced his run for president about three months ago. Since then he has become a very controversial figure, mostly due to his derogatory statements about Mexicans and illegal immigrants.
He has insulted immigrants and immigrant-born citizens, alike.
Most presidential campaigns have been unacknowledged by the teenage population. But the 2016 presidency is one that young adults will be more interested in because of how closely it hits to home.
Trump’s immigration plan, according to his website, is based on three core principles: A nation without borders is not a nation, a nation without laws is not a nation and nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
The solution to his first principle is to build a permanent border wall. “The cost of building a…wall pales mightily comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration…” according to Trump’s immigration plan.
However, Wayne Cornelius, director of University of California San Diego’s Mexico migration field research program, stated that building and maintaining such a wall “would cost tens of billions of dollars,” according to NBC News reporter Elizabeth Chuck, on July 23.
This wall would have to be 1,954 miles long. That’s just ridiculous.
The costs wouldn’t just be from building the wall and repairing it from decay, but also from the number of border patrol agents that would have to be trained and hired in order to patrol the wall.
Trump’s second principle is based on defending the laws and Constitution of the U.S. He wants to triple the number of ICE officers (think of all your tax dollars), ensure that only Americans can get jobs, deport all criminal aliens (yes, even the illegal immigrants who haven’t committed a crime other than being here), detain apprehended immigrants until deportation, defund cities who don’t actively kick out immigrants, enhance penalties for overstaying a visa and end birthright citizenship (yes, yes I know that violates the 14th amendment).
There are about 11 million immigrants in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center Trump wants to deport every single one of them. But just like Univision anchor Jorge Ramos wondered, how exactly does Trump plan to accomplish this?
Another enormously controversial part of Trump’s plan is to end birthright citizenship. We must be returning to the 1800’s. The 14th amendment specifically grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”
Obviously Trump didn’t get the memo.
The gist of Trump’s third principle is to take jobs away from immigrants and give them to American workers. He believes that immigrants are abusing the welfare system. But, yet, whites receive over 40 percent of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Another deranged theory that Trump holds is that immigrants are hurting the U.S. economy. He’s wrong, yet again. Immigrants are more likely to go on to start a business than non-immigrants by 30 percent, as stated by the Small Business Administration. These businesses create jobs for American workers. Immigrant-owned businesses employed an estimated 4.7 million people in 2007, according the Fiscal Policy Institute. If anything, immigrants in the U.S. are helping the economy, not hurting it.
Just as Jorge Ramos put it, “Donald Trump is, no question, the loudest voice of intolerance, hatred and division in the United States.” Trump’s immigration plan is a waste of time and effort. It has the potential to ruin millions of lives. Simple put, his plan es basura!
If we start letting the whole world over here, people aren’t going to want to come here anymore because we are going to start looking just like the rest of the world. Our ancestors fought so hard so that we would have freedom and a great nation. We have so much to protect. Every other country protects their borders, why don’t we? There are so many hard-working immigrants that wait years and study for their citizenship tests to become US citizens. I imagine this would infuriate them the most. Its like someone putting on their resume that they have a Bachelors degree but they never actually went to college.
Brian,
Mentioning that 40 percent of whites receive assistance isn’t some shocking stat when white people are the majority of the population and outnumber said groups.
The total cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers alone exceeded $1 billion in 2008. Approximately $200 million is spent on public safety, $400 million for healthcare and $450 million to welfare and food stamps.
You also seem to not be able to differentiate the difference between immigrants and illegals.