American funding of education and tuition for undocumented immigrants

Americans Having to Pay for the Education and Tuition of Illegal Immigrants

Illegal immigration has grown to be an international problem, and, the U.S. is one of the countries to have been most affected by it. The matter is controversial, with people both supporting and being against it. One cannot consider the government to be supportive, nor in opposition to illegal immigrants, considering the fact that it attempts to keep them away from entering the country and, concomitantly, it comes up with programs that work in favor of those illegally residing in the country. Illegal immigrants can be considered to be criminals and should be treated accordingly, either by being removed from the country, or, by being denied certain rights.

The U.S. is a democratic country and people presently have a problem with determining how democracy needs to behave toward illegal immigrants. Numerous discussions have been made on the subject, with people being generally unable to come to a clear conclusion. Some argue that illegal immigrants are harshly discriminated in the U.S. In contrast, others believe that the group largely benefits from its stay in the country through the various programs installed by the government with the intention of protecting and providing assistance for illegal immigrants. While the government's intention appears to be praiseworthy, it is actually disadvantageous for the nation's well-being, as illegal immigrants are practically encouraged to enter the country, being aware that living in the U.S. brings along a great number of benefits.

In addition to being encouraged to enter the country in great numbers because of governmental supportive programs, illegal aliens are also working against the nation's interests because of the large amounts of money invested by the authorities. The ordinary American citizen has the right to complain that the money for which he or she honestly works in order to pay taxes are being thrown away on governmental programs sustaining the stay of illegal immigrants. In contrast, illegal immigrants claim that they are being differentiated by being denied certain basic rights. Apparently, those that are against illegal immigrants consider that the level of illegal crossings of the border would be diminished as a result of the government cutting of all of the programs meant to support illegal aliens.

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act is a legislation proposed on March 26, 2009, in the U.S. Senate and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The law is intended to help illegal immigrants continue their studies throughout college, consequent to finishing high-school. In spite of the fact that students everywhere need to be encouraged through such actions, their illegal residency within the borders of U.S. stands as a challenge for them. Those supporting the act motivate their action by claiming that as long as people are going to stay in the country without any legal documentation, they might as well become intellectuals instead of working on low wages, without papers, such as most individuals from the group do.

It all comes to the U.S. government having two solutions:

1. Helping the illegal-immigrants assimilate by investing large amounts of money into controversial legislations.

2. Restricting all the services that illegal immigrants currently benefit from.

Surely, any clear-minded person would choose the second option, considering the fact that the first one would certainly damage the country's economy in vain. Obviously, choosing to discourage the staying of illegal immigrants in the country would produce suffering in many homes. However, one has to consider that illegal immigrants are criminals, and, it is wrong to cooperate with criminals, regardless of the circumstances. The problem with the authorities in the U.S. is that they accept the problem as if there is no solution to it. The government believes that preventing immigrants from entering the country is the only answer to reducing the number of undocumented individuals. However, if they were to carefully analyze the dilemma, they would come to the conclusion that it needs to be stopped from its core. Illegal border-crossings would be reduced if people had been acquainted with the fact that the U.S. government does nothing to support illegal immigrants.

Words such as medievalism, nationalism, and discrimination might spring into one's mind when relating to illegal immigrants in the U.S. not receiving any assistance from the government. However, legislations such as the DREAM Act are only contributing to the increase of the number of undocumented immigrants.

Observing that their kin abroad are virtually being provided with help by the American government itself, people from around the world are influenced in going through great efforts in order for the to enter the U.S.

Several states in the U.S. have already adopted DREAM-like acts, and, in the same time, others are still considering the performance. Certain states are actually wondering whether or not they should ratify such laws. The reason for their hesitation is that they are certain that such an action would lead to illegal immigrants competing to enter the state.

Encouraging criminals by providing them with assistance would only lead to them considering that the U.S. is a country in which crime pays. Consequently, they might also be inclined to commit other crimes, believing that the authorities would not give them serious punishments.

People supporting illegal immigrants leave from the premise that it is ok for them to have fake papers, since most of the U.S. citizens are racists and extremists, and that those respective immigrants would not succeed otherwise. This is very wrong, considering that an illegal immigrant with a fake driver's license can always provoke an accident and run from the crime scene. Because of the large number of illegal immigrants inhabiting the country, and, because most of them are ready to perform miserable jobs for low wages, Americans have become accustomed to creating ridiculous jobs for them. For example, Americans are presently becoming more and more inactive, as they are certain that there will always be an illegal immigrant prepared to perform any task for them, regardless of its simplicity.