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One of the amendments of United States claims that everyone should be treated equally, however, for the past decade immigration has been a big issue in the United States. Are them being equally treated? The great nation of United States was build by European immigrants from the early settlement. As much as people trying to avoid the issue, illegal immigration is an unsolved issue, now the question is: should illegal immigrants remain in the United States or should they be detain and deported back to their countries?
Deporting illegal immigrants is not going to lower the crime rate, or stop human trafficking into the United States. According to Daniel Kanstroom shows how illegal immigrants are not increasing crime rates, and deporting them is not going to reduce the entrance of unauthorized people. Kanstroom states “ deportation hasn’t deterred undocumented immigration, which increased steadily from 2000 to 2007. Nor has it substantially reduced serious crime rates; a 2007 study found that American-born men between 18 and 39 were five times more likely than foreign-born men to be imprisoned” (Kanstroom, 2012). People that come to this nation not to create problems but to have a better life should have a chance to remain in United States. Family separations is one of the dark outcomes of deportation, children are left behind with an uncertain future. Most illegal immigrants are not criminals, they are just people hungry for a better life.
Illegal worker have a significant impact in the agriculture industries, jobs that are unwanted by American and taken by illegal people. Without immigrants a state agricultural economy could dramatically decrease, as Alana Semuel...

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...efit both parties. Immigrants are part of this nation; they help this country economy in several way but also hurt it. Action should be taken immediately before it’s too late and things get out of control.

Works Cited

Kanstroom, Daniel. “ Deportation Nation.” New York Times; A.27.Aug 31 2012. SIRS Isuues Researcher. Web. 3 Apr. 2014 http://sks.sits.com.
Semuels, Alana. “Business Owners Getting Vocal on Immigraton. “ Los Angeles Times: A.1. Feb 23 2013 SIRS Isuues Researcher. Web. 3 Apr. 2014 http://sks.sits.com
DeMint, Jim, And Robert Recotor. “The burden of Amnesty.” Washington post: A.17. May 07 2013. SIRS Isuues Researcher. Web. 3 Apr. 2014 http://sks.sits.com
Izumi, Lance T. “Educating Illegal Immigrants Costly.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A.13. Aug 18 2010. SIRS Isuues Researcher. Web. 3 Apr. 2014 http://sks.sits.com

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