Immigration Persuasive Speech

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When things go downhill in your life, you tend to only focus on what you’re going through and completely ignore the fact that many others could be going through the same exact thing. It’s not easy to accept that other people are feeling the same pain as you. Something goes wrong, it’s like the end of the world for you. That was me at the age of 9. Of course, as any other young girl, I didn’t really know what real pain was. I mean the type of pain when losing someone, more specifically, having someone taken away from you. I remember everything like it had just happened this morning. Long story short, I had my dad pulled away from my arms due to immigration issues. I wasn’t easy going through that. I had to go to school with a smile on my face and let no one know what had just happened. Up to this day, I get choked up just thinking about it. It wasn’t easy then, and it's still not easy today. With all the pain going around, I never stopped to realize I wasn’t the only one who had experienced that. As I got older, I became aware that many of my fellow classmates had the same thing done to them, sometimes even worse. …show more content…

Mainly referring to Hispanics, lots and lots of people have lost family to this issue. Throughout the whole U.S, families are broken apart. From experience and from things I've been told, many sons and daughters fall into depressions. Affecting us greatly, we can experience thing such as mood swings, behavioral issues, eating disorders, and difficulty of concentrating. In my opinion, taking a person away affects the people they leave behind more than actually leaving the person here. It causes more trouble than anything. When a dearly important person is taken from you, it's like you just shutdown making you want to give up on things. This leads to society going down, but not slowly, but in all. Everyone who has been affected by the immigration issue will loose interest of trying in

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