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Against Immigration
The fight against immigration is a hot-button topic, which is inherently prevalent in the United States and in European nations that experience high surge of illegal and legal immigrants. This issue has a significant political impact, given the effects of immigration on the host and home nations. Immigration is defined as the inherent migration of people for various reasons from one country to another. The opposition against immigration emanates from principal concerns on economic costs, negative environmental consequences as a result of accelerated human population growth, national identity distortion, and high crime rates. In 1921, the Congress in U.S. enacted a law, which quantified on the immigrants number allowed into the nation in a year. This further compounded the problem of illegal immigrants as many people strove to enter the country and be counted among immigrants allowed into the nation. Today, close to 10 million immigrants reside in the US, which significantly exerts pressure on the social amenities among other services. The budget is prepared considering the number of people available but immigrants entering a country and in great numbers affect the provision of services. Therefore, unchecked immigration has had significant impacts on political, socio-cultural, and economic effects on the host and home countries.
Fight against immigration continues to gain support from many quarters. Immigrants, whether illegal or legal, represent a number that cannot be budgeted for as they are in transition. The available social amenities like health care, education, and housing facilities become inadequate, and the services given tend to be of low quality. Building of houses, schools, and health centers considers the available population as beneficiaries. Not all people will get these services, which leads to street families, high illiteracy levels, and development of slums (Azarnet 1341). Immigration also causes overcrowding and long queues in the medical facilities because the immigrants were not considered when the community facilities were constructed. Furthermore, the patient and doctor ratio is impossible to maintain, given the case of illegal immigrants, which increases anytime and without notice. The immigrants’ children deserve an education like other children. The community also feels threatened because the facilities cannot meet their needs. The schools are not spared as the equilibrium is seriously upset. The children of immigrants automatically achieve the status of citizens because they are born and registered in the host nation. Just like the health facilities, the ratio of teacher-pupil is extremely imbalanced as many pupils are not accounted for when these teachers are posted (Villalo?n 68).
The economy suffers because illegal immigrants are not accounted for, which affects the delivery of service and living standards of the citizens. The immigrants are desperate and accept employment no matter how low they are paid. In the other hand, immigrants are not aware of the employment wage rates and will take any package regardless of the pay, thus affecting the wages paid to citizens. Employers will always crave for cheap labor and the immigrants readily provide the cheap labor (Azarnet 1343). In aIDition, the presence of immigrants calls for more money in the provision of their social welfare because human rights groups advocate for human dignity and efforts alleviating suffering. The economy suffers given the purchasing power is eroded due to increased unemployment. With a majority of the population being on state schemes, the economy is further affected as these funds could have been used in the development. More funds are channeled to housing to reduce the number of families living in the streets. Moreover, housing is not controlled hence prices go down, which drives away the investors in the real estate industry (Krikorian 73).
Another reason for the fight against immigration is because illegal or legal immigrants are a security threat to the host nation. The entry into the host nation either illegally or legally by immigrants who do not uphold the principles and values of the host nation bring along vices. These immigrants may have the agenda of upsetting the peace prevailing in the host societies. The case of 9/11 on American soil is a good example of the security risk immigrants bring to homeland security. This case, where the majority of the citizens became insecure, calls for immediate measures to curb the security threat (DeParle 1). Similarly, immigrants who do not achieve the dream they had on host nation become disillusioned and frustrated. Many of the immigrants become jobless and indulge in any activity that enables them to earn a living. This explains the rampant cases of crimes and prostitution witnessed in neighborhood hosting large numbers of jobless immigrants.
Brain drain is another problem caused by immigration. Professionals from developing nations leave their home countries in search of green pastures. Krikorian (104) argues that migrating from the home countries is beneficial to professionals who get paid good money in developed nations. Most professionals, for instance, in the medical field earn some good pay in the developed nations. Moreover, as expatriates, their services are more valued in the developed nations as compared to developing nations who pay them meager salaries. Therefore, the destination nations benefit from the expertise of immigrant professionals and reap the benefit of employing the best brains. These professionals also solve the issue of inadequate labor force in the host nations who appreciates their services through better pay, housing, and other amenities.
Immigration is thus a serious issue and should be approached and analyzed from all perspectives with care. In my view, immigration, which many scholars inherently have campaigned against, affects the economy, social amenities, and state security as well as the morals and values of the host nations. The terror attacks in the United States have no justification at all. Innocent Americans lost their lives in their nation because illegal or legal immigrants directly or indirectly contributed to the success of these heinous attacks. Many people were left without loved ones because of the terror attacks. Host governments are forced to incur extra expenses to maintain border security. Further, crime rates increase as a ripple effect emanating from high number of unemployed immigrants as well as the citizens who have been out-competed by legal immigrants in accessing skilled and menial jobs. Unemployment brings a high rate of robbery as unemployed immigrants engage in it to eke a living (Villalo?n 113). The host nation’s budget on security and justice doubles as more penitentiaries and rehabilitation centers have to be built to cater for the unexpected increase of incarcerated lawbreakers.
My views differ from those supporting immigration because it comes with various problems that vehemently affect the host nation. Illiteracy level increases as more youth seek employment resulting in issues of child labor. The adults, on the failure to secure employment engage in contraband businesses as well as in illegal trade like drug trafficking. Early parenthood for young girls exposed to harsh economic conditions in search of jobs not forthcoming; exposes them to sexual exploitation, which significantly leads to prostitution. Immigration whether illegal or legal has significant impacts not only on the economy but also on the nation’s moral values (DeParle 1).
Immigration should be banned because it comes with social evils such as prostitution, high crime rates, and overcrowding of available inadequate resources. Banning immigration will ease the unnecessary strain immigrants put on the host nation’s economy, security, and social amenities. Conflicts and civil war emerge from issues that could be contained by ban on immigration as it brings competition for resources between citizens and immigrants. One may argue that immigration provides cheap labor force as well as expatriates, even if the host nation has not invested in their education. On the other hand, it causes imbalances, empirically unsettling the labor market. Xenophobic attacks are negative reactions by citizens in the policy of the government to award jobs to citizens and non-citizens on the basis of merit. The xenophobic attacks can be avoided by banning immigration (Villalo?n 37). Similarly, brain drain occurs in the home countries of expatriate immigrants. Think of a case where developing nations invest heavily in training of nurses and doctors; only for these bright brains to migrate in developed nations. Hospitals in developing nations lack the professionals to treat many epidemics and diseases threatening lives of masses every day. For humanity’s sake, the developing nations need these nurses and doctors as well as other trained professionals more than the developed nations.
My position is that immigration should be banned if both developing and developed nations will succeed in controlling unnecessary imbalances emanating from both illegal and legal immigration.

Works Cited
Azarnet, Leonid. “The intensity of struggle against immigration.” Journal of Population Economics. 23.4 (2010): 1339-1349.
DeParle, Jason. “The Anti-Immigration Crusader.” The New York Times. April 17, 2011. December 6, 2013. from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Krikorian, Mark. The New Case against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal. New York: Sentinel, 2008. Print.
Villalo?n, Roberta. Violence against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community. New York, N.Y: New York University Press, 2010. Print.