does america have illegal immigrants?

does America have illegal immigrants? Does a forest have trees?

Most of the immigrants the come to the U.S. are from Mexico, or at least all the ones i hear about. Mexico's economy is rather bad, and America's (in my opinion) is only slightly better, but none the less, its good enough to act like a magnet for those looking for a new life, new opportunities, and new freedoms. The United States doesn't exactly handle the immigrants as well as they could. The U.S. is aware that immigrants often perform jobs that citizens wouldn't, and thus, they don't often actually enforce immigration laws. Mostly, the government talks about how to deal with it and how to prevent it. Sometimes people get deported, but mainly its all just talk.The immigration bureaucracy is overwhelmed, causing legal immigrants to wait years for applications. From my understanding, a lot if illegal immigrants find the process of getting a green card much too complicated and hardly worth the struggle, so they simply ignore it and remain illegal.



“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now… We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace… But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America… Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should”

— Barack Obama, Statement on U.S. Senate Floor, May 23, 2007