Argumentative Essay On Immigrant Children

Children are constantly crossing the U.S. border to escape their home country. Whether if it’s from violence in their own home, dangerous gangs, or drugs, the U.S. should protect these children in danger. But the centers we hold them in aren’t exactly all that safe. We need to care for these children as if they were our own, and show them love and support through the rough times they are going through. When these children cross the border they are sent to a center to live in. These centers aren’t all that great. Immigrant children have protested peacefully about the harsh conditions at some centers. These children were confined in their rooms and were not allowed to contact each other. The children were various other unacceptable treatment. This harshness had eventually stopped when the immigrant children took action and told a local teacher’s law school students of their center’s horrible conditions, and they notified the U.S. government. Soon after the private holding center stopped housing immigrant children.
U.S. immigration and refugee law protects victims of violence such as these children. It is not the most perfect system, but the president and white house officials are dedicated to protecting immigrant children within today’s political and legal limits. People who are afraid of being hurt can ask for protection from the U.S., it doesn’t matter what country they come from. Our laws allow them the right to stay here and be protected as refugees. So this is what is needed for these children. To be protected until they find that they can stay in the U.S. or go back to Central America where they came