Our nation wants to grow and prosper, but with unskilled and uneducated immigrants that continue to hinder our progress, we will never succeed.(Bassett J.F., 2010) .
Illegal immigration affects our nation now a day in a more negative way such as illegal immigrants work for cheap labor in which this makes it hard for a fellow American's to find jobs. They come over to our nation destroying are land and property they aren't to pay taxes on anything. Along with this they are getting help from are government's welfare programs. If we let this continue, hard-working Americans will be in trouble.
(Steuver, D.H., 2009) In 1848, The Mexican-American border took shape with the Treaty of Guadalupe, which ended the Mexican-American War. About 45 percent of the land previously known as Mexico was given to U.S. authorities, who were happy to claim it under the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. In 1882, the large-scale use of undocumented Mexican-American labor came about during the 1880's as industrialists began to construct a railroad to connect Mexico and the United States. The first train crossed the border on August 2nd, 1882, but thousands of undocumented railroad workers crossed the border first. In 1910 The Mexican Revolution sent tens of thousands of Mexican migrant workers to the United States, as the economy south of the border changed and the economy north of the border entered a more progressive, worker-centered era.
(Steuver, D.H., 2009) In 1929 as the declining U.S. economy led non-Latino workers to fight for jobs, the first round of Mexican deportations forcibly sent millions of "illegal" immigrants including between 500,000 and two million U.S. citizens of Latino ancestry to Mexico.
(Steuver, D.H., 2009) In 1942, a large deportation opened up job opportunities for desperate non-Mexican workers during the Great Depression, but World War II created millions of vacancies, particularly in the agricultural industry.
