11 million, the estimated number of undocumented immigrants (UI) in the United States today. That's an increase of roughly one third since 2000, when there were 8.5 million UIs, according to the Center for American Progress. 1 million, the estimated number of immigrants deported under the Obama administration's immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities, which checks the status of immigrants booked into county jails in participating jurisdictions. 40 million, the approximate number of today's foreign-born population of the U.S., which has tripled in the past four decades to reach roughly 13 percent of the total population. The United States is increasing its immigrant population every day, if nothing is done about this issue, the US will take a turn for the worst. .
Along with the increase in immigrant population growth, the United States' citizens are feeling threatened by the illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants come to the United States to take jobs that offer them greater opportunity, and they are often welcomed by U.S. employers who are able to hire them for wages lower than they would have to pay to hire U.S. workers. This employment is illegal under a law enacted in 1986, but some employers ignore the law and hire illegal workers in the underground economy. Others simply accept fake employment documents and hire the illegal workers as if they were legal. FAIR's (Federation of American Immigration Reform) estimate of the number of illegal aliens in the workforce - using the share estimate of the Pew study - is similarly, slightly higher, to about 8.5 million jobs occupied by illegal immigrant workers. "A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation" (Ronald Reagan). The United States needs to control who comes into the country and who is leaving the country. With all these immigrants coming in, the outcome will be a corrupted nation, and no one wants that.