domestic policy proposal: immigration

Illegal aliens crossing the border of the United States have been a source to much of the controversy relating to job advancement, economic welfare, religion, and several more elements in which America runs. "According to the Census Bureau, there were an estimated 8.7 million illegal aliens living in the United States in 2000" (fairus.org). One could only assume in today's day in age that that number has only sky-rocketed. Because these immigrants are living under undocumented conditions in the United States, they don't have the residential duties of paying taxes, which is a large basis in which our country runs. With these millions of immigrants living in our country illegally, not only is the government losing money, but we as legal American citizens are as well. They tend to work for less money, therefore making them a cheap benefit to employers. Legal citizens demand more money per say, consequently putting them at the end of the list of the call-backs for employment. In a sense, these illegal aliens have been a justification for much of the unemployed America.