Instigator / Pro
21
1472
rating
34
debates
45.59%
won
Topic
#3927

Secure Borders is better for the USA, rather than Open Borders

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
9
0
Better sources
6
0
Better legibility
3
0
Better conduct
3
1

After 3 votes and with 20 points ahead, the winner is...

YouFound_Lxam
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
1
1488
rating
2
debates
0.0%
won
Description

Rules:

Must provide evidence for your argument.

Every opinionated argument must be backed up with facts.

Stay on topic.

Round 1
Pro
#1
Before I start my argument, I would like to thank Chernobyl for accepting this debate.

Also let's get definitions of what I mean by, secure, and open etc.

Secure:  "TRUSTWORTHYDEPENDABLE"

This is the definition of Secure I am using in this argument.

Open: "not restricted to a particular group or category of participants"

This is the definition of Open I am using in this argument.

Better: "more advantageous or effective"

This is the definition of Better I am using in this argument.

Border: "BOUNDARY"
(Specifically meaning borders for the USA, and no other countries.)

This is the definition of Border I am using in this argument.


Ok now that we have gotten definitions out of the way, I can start my argument.

Crime Rates
Crime rates in the USA, are highly affected by open borders, and weak border control. 
"According to a new report from the U.S. Justice Department, almost half of all of the criminals prosecuted in federal courts in 2018 were aliens, charged with crimes ranging from drug trafficking to murder to kidnapping. While a small number of those over 41,000 criminals were in this country legally, the vast majority—38,000—were illegal aliens. Compare this to 1998, when there were only a little over 18,000 aliens prosecuted in federal courts.
The special report, “Non-U.S. Citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 1998-2018,” goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid using the politically incorrect (but legally correct) term “aliens” in the report. Instead, illegal aliens are referred to as “undocumented non-U.S. citizens.”
Political correctness aside, the report cannot disguise the dangers and costs represented by the raw numbers. In many instances, illegal aliens are repeat offenders. For instance, of the illegal aliens prosecuted in 2018, 12.5 percent had at least one prior federal or state criminal conviction, 18.5 percent had two to four prior convictions, and over 10 percent had five or more convictions. Hispanics dominate the criminal prosecutions, representing 74 percent of the criminal illegal aliens.
The crimes committed by these aliens ranged from drug trafficking to “violent offenses” including murder, sexual assault, robbery, and kidnapping. In fact, 24 percent of all federal prosecutions for drug offenses were of aliens. And we are not talking about simple possession. As the report states, “drug offenses” are defined as the “manufacture, import, export, distribution, and dispensing” of dangerous drugs like methamphetamine. So, aliens are a major source of the debilitating drug problem that is a scourge on our society.
While these numbers are distressing, what’s even more distressing is that they only represent the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of crimes committed in this country are prosecuted at the local level, not the federal level. These federal numbers are only a fraction of the crimes committed by criminal aliens. The latest report from the state of Texas alone, for example, reports that between June 1, 2011, and Nov. 30, 2021, 356,000 criminal aliens were booked into Texas jails, of which over 243,000 were identified as being in the country illegally. Those illegal aliens were charged with more than 401,000 criminal offenses, including 742 murders, 47,737 assaults, 7,524 burglaries, over 11,000 sexual assaults and other sex crimes, and numerous kidnappings, thefts, robberies, and drug and weapons charges.
Many criminal aliens were convicted of federal immigration offenses, including “smuggling of persons,” a relatively benign-sounding term for human trafficking, a cruel practice that often results in the exploitation, abuse, and sometimes rape or death of its victims.
Eighty percent of aliens were charged with illegal reentry—something that would not be happening if we were actually securing our border.

The result? Illegal border crossings over the past year reached 1.7 million in October, the highest number of illegal crossings since records began being kept in 1960."

Our amount off illegal aliens has cause the crime rate to spike in the USA.
"In fiscal year 2020, the Border Patrol recorded 458,088 encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border. That figure has spiked to approximately 2 million in fiscal year 2021.
In 2020, 2,438 of the illegal immigrants encountered at the southern border already had criminal records at the time of entry. In 2021, 10,763 illegal immigrants encountered had criminal records.
It’s troubling enough that lax border policy permits thousands of convicts (and scores of suspected terrorists) to enter the country illegally. The evidence shows, however, that tens of thousands more illegal immigrants will commit crimes while in the United States (not counting the hundreds of thousands of  crimes related to facilitating illegal immigration such as crimes related  to identity theft, obtaining false driver’s licenses, improperly accessing public benefits, using fraudulent green cards, etc.)."


Taxpayers Money
The loose security at the border, and the number of illegal aliens that have crossed the border, into the USA, have had big effects on taxpayers' dollars.
The cost alone for time in federal prisons can get up to 40,000 dollars a year, which has had a big effect on the U.S. taxpayers.
"In addition to the horrendous human costs of their crimes, when you consider the costs of law enforcement related to their arrest, prosecution, and incarceration, these aliens are also costing U.S. taxpayers a tremendous amount of money. According to the government, the incarceration cost alone for criminals serving time in federal prisons—such as these aliens—is between $35,000 and $40,000 per year per inmate. At the end of 2018, 19 percent of the prisoners in the Federal Bureau of Prisons—30,848—were aliens, costing the American taxpayer between one billion and 1.2 billion dollars a year just to house them.
Con
#2
Forfeited
Round 2
Pro
#3
Con, forfeited.

Vote Pro.
Con
#4
Forfeited
Round 3
Pro
#5
Vote Pro. 
Con
#6
Forfeited
Round 4
Pro
#7
Vote Pro. 
Con
#8
Forfeited
Round 5
Pro
#9
Vote Pro. 
Con
#10
Forfeited