The Growth of Immigration

Today in America we see everyday on the news that more and more people are immigrating illegally to the U.S. from Cuba, Mexico and other countries. What many American's do not realize though is that it does not only happen in America, all over Europe the same situation is happening. More and more people are trying to flee from captivity, poverty, and oppression to better living environments offered in many countries that are a part of the EU. Since 1997 Europe's population has gone up by 3 million people due to immigration, not all of which is illegal but some is. In the past decade more people have fled to Europe than we realize due to illegal human trafficking. Tourists have been targeted recently and have been abducted and brainwashed and put into either the slave trade, sex trade, or other countless things. It really is amazing to think that in these new technological and militaristic times that we still have so much illegal operations going on. You would think that since we have advanced so much since the time of the legal slave trade that we would be able to cut down on the new slave and sex trafficking. I can not blame the people for fleeing from oppression but what does bother me is that these people are taking jobs away from people that are working and living in the country legally. I think the cure all solution for this situation then is that we need to crack down more on the reason for the illegal immigration.