nited States (Cox 102). It is hard for the border control to catch all these smugglers, but when they do, what next? “They just turn them around and send them home…if they arrested and prosecuted more people…a substantial number of illegals would be deterred from attempting to enter this country illegally” (Gotcher). If the government’s system were stricter, maybe there wouldn’t be as much crime coming into this country. If they just send these criminals away without punishment, then the criminals will try again until they succeed. To show how much immigrant crime there really is, sixty percent of all the inmates in the county jails of California are illegal. In addition, “eighty percent of all accidents involving uninsured motorists involve illegal aliens” (Gotcher). These immigrants hardly ever carry auto insurance or register their cars. In 1992, Patrick Buchanan warned, “our great cities are riven with gang wars among Asian, black, and Hispanic youth who grow up to run ethnic crime cartels” (Cox 93). Many of these happen to be immigrants, some criminals from other countries. These criminals probably could be people running away from the government of his or her country because of a murder or some other crime. When they get here, nobody knows that the person is wanted in another country and will get away with more murders here in this country. This is how crime is growing in this country. These criminals establish their own crime gang and then the United States has to deal with more problems. The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act expanded the number of crimes for which an immigrant can be deported. This act became more lenient on immigrants who commit crimes here in this country! The government is not moving any closer to solving crime in the United State by doing this. When this type of thing happens, other immigrants believe ...
