Argumentative Essay On Immigration Reform
We all have hopes and dreams, isn’t that what America is all about? Wrong. Today thousands of immigrant are being forced back to their home countries. So much for the freedom and opportunity of the people. For years now, immigrants have been promised a fair immigration plan, but at what time? The time where we sent all of the immigrants back to their home countries and by the time we finish the immigration reform plan there would be not immigrants left. This whole country is founded on immigrants, expect for the Native of course. The immigration reform has been our longest waited object yet. Our current immigration system is broken no doubt; which this is the reason we must plan one. We need a plan, system that has commonsense for the immigrants
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Millions of immigrant workers are in a vulnerable position that will allow to take advantage of them paying them less than the minimum wage. Take for example the immigrant workers in the fields. They work hours under the conditions of the hot sun, or trudging through the muddy terrain in rainy days. They do not work in perfect weather conditions as they wish; they work every day without excuse in order to have a living. I personally have worked out in the fields and have experienced how the conditions are. Getting up from an early hour around six a.m. for then to start off at work which began at seven ’o clock. Getting only two-thirty-minute break; for lunch and dinner Taking in the excruciating back pain at the end of the day when coming home from work around close to midnight. Overall, it was not pleasant to work at this type of job, especially earing at such a low wage. But that doesn’t stop there when immigrant worker’s rights have been ignored even if they are protected by the law. That’s why it’s so easy to take advantage to these immigrants and being able to exploited them without a problem. Alone, they cannot raise their voice without getting the fear of being taken in jail or worse, deported. Immigrant workers need someone to take a stand with them to ensure their right’s as every human being has. With obtaining a well-planned out immigration reform, immigrant workers can be treated fairly just like the American workers. Thus, preventing these unfair wages and their rights being
Millions of immigrant workers are in a vulnerable position that will allow to take advantage of them paying them less than the minimum wage. Take for example the immigrant workers in the fields. They work hours under the conditions of the hot sun, or trudging through the muddy terrain in rainy days. They do not work in perfect weather conditions as they wish; they work every day without excuse in order to have a living. I personally have worked out in the fields and have experienced how the conditions are. Getting up from an early hour around six a.m. for then to start off at work which began at seven ’o clock. Getting only two-thirty-minute break; for lunch and dinner Taking in the excruciating back pain at the end of the day when coming home from work around close to midnight. Overall, it was not pleasant to work at this type of job, especially earing at such a low wage. But that doesn’t stop there when immigrant worker’s rights have been ignored even if they are protected by the law. That’s why it’s so easy to take advantage to these immigrants and being able to exploited them without a problem. Alone, they cannot raise their voice without getting the fear of being taken in jail or worse, deported. Immigrant workers need someone to take a stand with them to ensure their right’s as every human being has. With obtaining a well-planned out immigration reform, immigrant workers can be treated fairly just like the American workers. Thus, preventing these unfair wages and their rights being