aches a stabilized population Over one million immigrants come to the United States annually. To add to this, immigrants have shown to have a higher birthrate than native-born Americans do. One-third of annual population growth of the United States now is from immigration. Twenty to twenty-five percent are illegal aliens or about 200,000 (Andryszewski 87). Illegal aliens cause a strain on welfare and health care facilities, not to mention more unwanted population. For example, in California, taxpayers were paying three billion dollars a year to benefit illegal aliens with education, healthcare, and other benefits. Finally, in 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, which aimed to deny public benefits to illegal immigrants (Huffington 63). Illegal immigration is causing problems to United States citizens. These citizens are forced to pay billions of taxes on people who shouldn’t even be here in the first place. Even legal immigrants, who are of large numbers, are also costing a lot for other citizens so that more schools, stores, and other facilities can be built for these new immigrants. The population is getting out of hand due to excessive immigration and the government needs to do something about it.Refugees are also becoming serious a problem to the population of the United States. Refugees come to the United States to escape religious, political, and racial persecutions. Another reason is because of wars on in their home country, bringing many of them here to the United States. In 1995, the United Nations recommended that all countries accept a combined total of less than 32,000 refugees. That same year, the United States alone admitted more than 110,000 immigrants as refugees. Some refugees are driven out of their home country due to economic hardships. In the very poor regions of the world, population growth, poverty, and lack of resources often cause these people to flee their home in pursuit of a...
