Current U.S. Immigration Policy is based off the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which only allows 675,000 permanent, legal immigrants in the country at any given time. This number does not reflect the legal immigrant’s immediate family members also in the country, immigrants permanently allowed in the U.S. for work or refugees that Congress and the President decide to allow within the country’s borders (American Immigration Council, 2017). Illegal immigration goes against this legal government policy. According to 2017 Pew Research Center statistics approximately 3.4% of the U.S population or more than 11 million people were estimated as unauthorized immigrants in 2015 (Krogstad, Passel & Cohn, 2017). These immigrants did not go through legal government channels to reside in the country, they do not have permission to work in the U.S, and they are not asylum seekers that the government has permitted refuge. They are not only here illegally, but the United States is forced to contend with the problem by funding millions of dollars a year to patrolling the country’s borders, in the arrest and deportation of illegals, the court system which is racked with illegal immigration cases, and in the creation and management of detention facilities. Illegal immigration has imposed a substantial economic burden on the U.S.