Illegal Immigrants Should NOT be Deported

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Did you know that there is an estamated 3.1 million american children with at least one parent who is illigally in the united states? Illegal immigration has always been a problem in the U.S dating all the way back to 1875. In 1882 president Chester A. Aurthor was the first president to bann all chinese workers. Soon after, the criminals and the mentally ill were refused from theU.S. Immigration wasn't always a problem before this. In 1892 the first portal oft immigration opened up in Ellis Island, New York. This was the premier station for immigration. Here new arrivals had to show identity and were asked a series of questions. After all this the immigrants were scanned for physical ailments and they had to have a friend or family vouch for them. When the operation ended in 1954 Ellis Island had prosessed over 12 million immigrants. In 1921 a quota law passed to reduce immigration to 357,000 people a year and to limit the number of immigrants of any one country. In 1924 a new quota law passed to reduce immigration to 160,000 a year. In 1929 the reduction of immigrants dropped to only 157,000 people.( history of illegal immigration in u.s)

The big controvercy in the history of the United states is mexican immigration. Mexican immigration has become an outrage in some states. Immigrants are wanted to work in agricultural places because they are cheap and don't need to be paid as much as americans. Mexican immigration was huge untill the year 1929 during the Great Depression. Nearly 500,000 to 1,000,000 immigrants left the U.S because of the stock market crash and the limited employment but mostly because of deportation and the threat of being deported. Things changed after that ended. Over the next two decades nearly 4.8...

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...migration in U.S. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2014.I used this site because it has dates of history of immigration. Also it is very credible and has a lot of information.

Princeton University. " - The Future of Children -." Princeton University. Trustees of Princeton University © 2014, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2014. .I chose this website because it has credibale information about immigrant parent workers. Also it show facts about immigrants.

"Illegal Immigration: Drugs, Gangs and Crime." Civitas Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Feb. 2014. .This website was chosen because it has facts and statistics about drug and gangs. Also it has reports of people who commited these crimes

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