1. By: Corey Mulryan

2.  Population of the U.S. is 307,006,550  Illegal Aliens are estimated at 8.7 million  Unemployment rate is 9.6%

3.  World Bank- Mexico’s population is around 111 million, 47% are unemployed  53% are living in poverty, which is defined as living on less than 2 dollars a day, 24% live on less than 1 dollar a day

4.  Arizona Senate Bill 1070  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14 /utah-illegal-immigration-_n_646955.html Utah  Federal Government suing Arizona causing millions of dollars wasted, other states considering passing a similar law. ex) Florida, Utah

5.  Immigrationdirect.com/greencard/index.jsp $6,485.00 total including lawyer fees and process.  http://www.immigrationdirect.com/us- citizenship/U-S-Citizenship-application-Form- N-400.jsp $675 total

6.  Allow more legal immigrants, they pay state and federal taxes  Reduce the amount of money for Green Card and citizenship  Tax companies that hire illegal immigrants  Tax companies that have plants overseas

7.  New York Times “Illegal Immigrants are Bolstering Social Security with Billions” on April 5 th, 2005  Unemployment rate will decrease once the economy goes up  Immigrants did not cause our recession, huge corporations did

8.  Our nation is divided on immigration, we are all immigrants, our parents are immigrants  Immigration can be fixed by allowing more people to come in and by having businesses taxed or open up in different areas  Local officials have to listen to the people that elect them

9.  A fence and armed military personnel ARE NOT!! the solution.