Immigration laws currently are not making good use of the current laws to the extent they are intended and are out of date to the current times. Currently government has no practical approach to who can come into this country or to what level they will be able to contribute to the economy. With a country changing its primary industry to advanced technology and less low skilled manufacturing the ratio of immigrant coming into the country should mirror that demand. With 11 million illegal unskilled laborers living in this country and still growing something has to change. Even though politicians are unable to agree on the correct approach to fixing the immigration problems Immigration laws need to be changed. Over the years there have been many changes in immigration laws but many of them failed. For example in 2005 the real identification (ID) act was mandating that all states would be required to enforce requirements for state-issued drivers’ licenses. In 2006 many of the states started looking into the cost associated with the new real ID act. Many states were not happy with the cost associated with the new act and did not want to enforce it. On, “September 21, 2006, the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators released a report that judged the cost to the states of implementing REAL ID to be more than $11 billion over five years.” (Stock, 2007). As the states began to implement the new lice sensing rules legal immigrants started to have difficulty in obtaining new or renewed licenses. In New Hampshire a class action was filled by immigrants. The immigrants won the class action against the Department of Motor vehicles
Another was the US Visitor system, “an integrated, automated entry-exit security system introduced in January 2004 aimed at tracking the arrival and