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    because of gangs and violence. Well this is the life of an immigrant. Every year 8-12 million illegal immigrants are coming into the united states but 363,000 (83%) are being brought back with out a judge. They try so hard to have there children become an American but most fall short. Once they are in the united states illegally they have to find jobs and not get caught by the cops. When living in the U.S. seems easy to us, to the illegal immigrants its the most difficult thing in there lives.

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    Mexican Immigrants “Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. (“Sowell, Thomas”). This is a quote from Thomas Sowell, an author and a political philosopher. Some people think illegal immigrants shouldn’t be working in America, but others are for illegal immigrants working as farm laborers. If you deport all the Mexicans who are here illegally in America, then we would need to find more farm

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    Even with the evidence presented, some will still argue illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship. The opposing side may proclaim that immigrants take unwanted jobs, or that some pay tax. The truth is, those arguments are blasphemy. If you say immigrants are taking unwanted jobs, you clearly have not seen the homeless rate in the United States. In 2013, 610,042 Americans were without jobs. I’m not saying all of them actively search for jobs, but it has been shown that over 65% of homeless

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    Stories have been told of better lives await outside this land Immigrants have dreams to be successful to find new hope and a new home but when they arrive they are left in the shadows. With hardship comes no reward left feeling cheated it’s time to open the gates and allow illegals to receive a path to citizenship. When arriving as an illegal immigrant your lifeline is your economic income, whether it be from under the table or by finding and selling the scraps they could salvage from dumpster

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    As the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States begins to increase once more, the issue of allowing or prohibiting immigrants to gain temporary status in order to obtain work continues to create national problems. According to a report given by the Department of Homeland Security, it is estimated that the number of immigrants entering the U.S. is at about 1.1 million people per year. (Hanson Par. 1) These individuals come into the United States in search of better living conditions

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    Illegal Immigrants in US In the past year, there has been a lot of coverage in the media about illegal immigrants coming into the United States. Illegal immigrants crossing the border into the United States became one of the topics mentioned in the recent presidential campaign. President Trump told his supporters that Mexico is dumping thousands of “bad people” into the US because they are drug dealers, rapists, and murderers (Walker, 2015). President Trump cited a recent murder of a young woman

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    When it comes to the topic of immigrants, most of us will readily agree that the process should consist of several stages, which will help to identify whether the person really need citizenship. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of making concessions. Whereas some are convinced that all people should have equal opportunity in getting nationality, others maintain that here are special cases in which we need to ease the rules. In order to obtain citizenship person should

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    Legal status should be passed to almost 12 million foreign national living in the U.S illegally (Orchowski). Illegal immigrants come to the U.S looking for opportunities. Opportunities that in their native country is difficult to obtain. Some believed that when illegals arrive in the U.S they take advantage of jobs opportunities meant for Americans, leaving them without jobs. Many have passed many dangerous obstacles like, crossing the desert, paying off “coyotes”, work on underpaid jobs for years

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    actually means to move to other country for the purpose of job, permanent settlement or both. Illegal immigration comes into practice when people do not follow the guidelines required before and during the immigration process. There are dozens of reasons that would make a human being immigrate illegally and also there are dozens of consequences that people face for their choice. People migrate illegally because of overpopulation because the place people live in have

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    Many people have a different perspective and view’s about illegal immigrants, some are good however many are bad. My grandparents, father, and mother have lived in Mexico for most of their life, such a great place full of culture, smelling the sweet pastries coming from the local bakery. It all started back in 1997, the outskirts of a small ranch town in Mexico. My Father was enlisted and my Mother worked in a GMC electric wiring factory. I was the youngest of the siblings growing up the youngest

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