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Creative Writing: Jerry's Worst Job
One night Jerry was sitting on his couch at home watching TV alone with no one around. All of the sudden, he hears banging on his door. Jerry gets up to walk to the door and the pounding gets louder and louder. He opens the door and nobody is there, but all he hears is a smash of his window. Two men, in their mid-twenties are screaming in Spanish. One person is carrying a gun, pointing it at Jerry while the other starts carrying belongings out of the house. Suddenly, Jerry catches the last glimpse of those robbers and comes to the assumption that the people who robbed him were not legal residents of the United States. The next day, Jerry goes to his job, which is working as a construction worker. He is highly skilled and has built multiple …show more content…
Jerry sat down and his boss told him that he was going to get fired, and the man who was right beside him was getting a job, with a much, much lower payment. First the robbery and now this man taking his job...a job he has held for several years. Jerry thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. When he got home that day, he knew he had to pay his bills with the remaining money, but when he went to go pay the bills, he noticed the taxes were higher for some unknown reason. So, Jerry’s day went like this...he has just been robbed, lost his job, and is apparently wasting money for some undiscovered reason. Now, Jerry noticed that all of these conflicts have happened because of one specific problem… illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are seriously affecting and hurting U.S. citizens physically and economically. It is unfair for Americans to work so hard the things they have, like their life, their money, and their jobs, and then it is taken away by these illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are committing crimes, taking jobs from hard working Americans, and having others pay for their needs in …show more content…
citizens. They are hurting Americans by taking their jobs, injuring/ harming or sometimes killing Americans, and are having U.S. citizens pay for their expenses. Our country needs to truly stop illegal immigration and deport illegal immigrants who either have or have not committed crimes. If illegal immigration continues, we don’t even know how detrimental it could be. A survey said that 71.4% of students aged from 13-14 said that they were against illegal immigration, which even kids can see this problem. If illegal immigration doesn’t get stopped, the crime levels can be extremely high with the United States at a booming population. Also, more and more jobs, say as construction workers, will be taken up by illegal immigrants who will receive way lower pay. According to Carly Fiorina, MS, MBA, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard said “My own view is, if you have come here illegally and stayed here illegally, that you don’t get a path to citizenship.” Illegal immigrants do not deserve to have citizenship one bit. Even if you think about it, why would illegal immigrants be allowed to have U.S. citizenship after all that the problems which have caused Americans? These people do not deserve any right to be a citizen because they were not born in America. Think about how many unemployed U.S. citizens will be unemployed. Our country’s debt will skyrocket more to possibly in the three digit

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