Today’s debate focuses on illegal immigrants securing employment in the United States.

I’ve been asked many times to discuss illegal immigrants but I haven’t found an article that really addressed the issue in a satisfactory manner until this one.

The article discusses President Obama’s recent arrest of 28 workers in Washington who were suspected of being illegal immigrants. This move was considered quite risky considering President Obama campaigned on the platform of denouncing such crackdowns. Given the current unemployment rate though of 8% you could see that it would be tempting as now these jobs could be given to American citizens.

About 5% of jobs in the US are held by illegal immigrants so in theory if these approximately 12 million people were deported President Obama could theoretically fulfill his goal of “creating or savingâ€