Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Illegal immigration to the United States

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[edit] Illegal immigration to the United States

This article is in need of a general cleanup. There are a few sections that could use clarification and a look at POV. (submitted by an anon).

At 90K it may be a little long, but I don't know what to shorten. RJFJR 21:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

"...after three acts of misconduct these repeat offenders may be tared and featherd on sight." -Somehow, I don't think this is accurate.

[edit] major clean up

I agree this article is way to long for it to be useful. Too many tangents.

Here are some suggestions on how to trim it down and make sure it stays on the topic at hand.

1)Why is there a large section devoted to the Mexico. Wouldn't links alone to the main articles be enough? I'm new to this article so I won't delete such a major portion myself but If I don't get any objections within a day or so it's gone.

2)Another area to cut, the birthright citizenship should be much shorter and link back to the main article. Again if no one objects, I;m going to delete everything and leave a very short summarizing paragraph and a link to the main article. N Azwatchdog (talk) 21:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

3)We have to get rid of the massive mess that was the economic section and replace it with the intro summarizing paragraph from the main article on the subject. Call me crazy but the section should not be longer than the main article.

4)Why is there a section on legal immigration? "Immigration with and without quotas" needs to be removed

I've tried to fix the economic section but was hit with a vandalism charge.

If no one has any objections in the next day or so. I'm going ahead with the plan.

[edit] Lack of quantitative, statistical information

Immigration is a demographic phenomenon, quantifiable, and this article has mostly qualitative information. For example, I would expect this article to have numbers on deportation (those numbers are probably publicly available); also, estimates about age, social status, regional breakdown, as well as an historic perspective.... Instead, I find mostly qualitative information, even often information about specific cases, bordering to the anecdotal. Having a higher proportion of quantitative information would also reduce the risk of NPOV disputes.--Farialima (talk) 03:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)