Persuasive Essay About Immigration

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Immigration it 's been on t.v it 's been seen on the news everyday about how new law are taking place or ideas to make it harder for someone to get inside the u.s.a, but really it 's more than just something you hear about on your t.v scene in the morning. Its part of our past, present, and even future as a nation. Many political parties try using it for themselves to gain voters and others say it can even lead to the demolishment of our amendment rights.The cost and all the hours toward being an American citizen but, just how does all this affect everyone and what do they think? Most immigration of illegal crossing in the past and even still today is about the border between the United States and Mexico. Immigrants have been crossing the border for decades in search of a better start known …show more content…

It is seen to be one of the top problems in the united states. There are many solutions that we can do to solve this long lasting problem. i found three that might be of most intrest to people. The first I encountered was to increase our military forces at the border this includes airports to produce less attacks by terrorist and illegal entries from other countries. Another was like Donald Trump 's idea. They wanted to ban all people who may cause harm to the USA based on the race or religion more than the person themselves. The last one which I liked was making more jobs to let immigrants living here an opportunity to have a job. People may say that immigrants are gonna take there jobs “bla bla bla” but, based on this study experts say that immigrants bring in more jobs then they take. This may change people 's point of view because there thoughts were mostly that immigrants took our

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