Immigration Argumentative Essay

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Many minority groups have been discriminated against throughout American history and also barred at times from entering the country. However, the Asians were the first group to endure such a discrimination from the United States that would lead to their group being forced out the country. During the 1880s the California Gold Rush was a turning point in American history has thousands of miners fled to California in hopes of finding gold and cashing in on their hard earned work. During the beginning of the gold rush the government was handing out claims to everyone so they could own their gold and dig in certain parts of mine. However, has gold became scarce, because it had largely been dug out or occupied by others, the government began to see …show more content…

With immigrants coming over in the masses, this has led to a large amount of undocumented immigrants fleeing to America and has left America in a crunch without the resources to monitor or deport all of these people. As a result, they have used laws to ban immigrants from being members of our society, laws such as, voter ID. In 2008, Texas was one of many states to implement the identification to vote policy, you can no longer vote if you cannot present legal form of ID. This was in light of elites being aware that if immigrants were given a voice they could change the political landscape and to prevent that they singled out the Hispanic community to prevent them from voting. Though most immigrants contribute to our society economically and are law-abiding citizens, elites have done their best to exclude them. In addition, in Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio pushed for a law along with legislators by the name of SB-1070 that allowed law enforcement to check for papers and legal status of random persons. This came has another form of targeting the Hispanic community and aided in the deportation of many immigrants. However, this later found to violate immigrants natural rights which are protected under 14th

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