One of the largest legal matters facing our nation is immigration and coming up with a solution on how to deal with Illegal Aliens. The problem that our country is facing deals with not only Illegal Aliens already in our country but illegal’s that will be coming. There have been many plans to deal with the Illegal Aliens in the past and to date there has not been a plan put into place that has worked. It appears that the Federal Government has not been able to come to a resolution so now more local governments are putting into law their own immigration laws. Prince William County in Virginia is one of these local governments. Prince William County has decided to cut off services to illegals and is planning to train the police force to enforce the immigration laws. Prince Williams County has also laid out legal ramifications for employers. Illegal aliens are a problem and one that needs to be dealt with.
Illegal Aliens has been a problem for a long time and a problem that to this day our country has no solution for. Way back in 1986, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), sponsored an immigration bill. Then as now, illegal aliens had flooded the country. Then as now, the Senate had an answer: amnesty. Kennedy said a few things worth remembering: "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this." "Never again" is a mighty long time, much longer than the 21 years that have elapsed since Kennedy made his fulsome promise. Illegal aliens are 10 times the number they were then and Americans are angry about them ( ).
The Bills in front of Congress now suggest legalizing the 12 million immigrants that are already here. The problem is how our country will stop others from crossing the border once those 12 million are legal. Our country has no solution on how to secure the borders so it would only be a matter of time before there would be 12...