Persuasive Essay About Immigration
Today we face many issues that affect our way of life, but the one that I am most passionate about is immigration.People have different takes on the subject but I believe that the current take on immigration is flawed due to many reasons such as deportation splitting up families, the complicated path to citizenship, and the fact that we’re judging immigrants when at some point almost everyone in this country was an immigrant. I personally believe that we need to rethink the way we take on issues dealing with immigration beggining with revising the path to citizenship. People are always talking about the fact that there are people who cross into this country illegally and we judge them for not going through the naturilization process, but have
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Society as a whole generally thinks of immigrants as a liability and as individuals who come to the contry to steal jobs and take resources away from citizens. For that reason, they find it easy to handcuff them at any time and send them straight back to where they came from, but we never really think about who we’re actually impacting by doing that. People who come to this country are usually looking to better their lives, and that includes having a familly, but because of this their children are considered US born citizens while the parents are still deported as illegal immigrants, leaving the children as orphans. “...two reports, which lay out 72,410 removals of immigrants who said they had one or more US-born children in 2013.”(Foley 2) By removing the parents from the children’s lives, our government leaves an immense negative impact on the child and that can cause them to resent the government in the future and that might lead to a life of crime and rebellion against the government in the future. For these reasons I believe that we need to rethink how we go about handling immigrants with an established life in this country because, by removing one person we’re not only affecting them, we’re affecting their entire familly and that kind of loss is
Society as a whole generally thinks of immigrants as a liability and as individuals who come to the contry to steal jobs and take resources away from citizens. For that reason, they find it easy to handcuff them at any time and send them straight back to where they came from, but we never really think about who we’re actually impacting by doing that. People who come to this country are usually looking to better their lives, and that includes having a familly, but because of this their children are considered US born citizens while the parents are still deported as illegal immigrants, leaving the children as orphans. “...two reports, which lay out 72,410 removals of immigrants who said they had one or more US-born children in 2013.”(Foley 2) By removing the parents from the children’s lives, our government leaves an immense negative impact on the child and that can cause them to resent the government in the future and that might lead to a life of crime and rebellion against the government in the future. For these reasons I believe that we need to rethink how we go about handling immigrants with an established life in this country because, by removing one person we’re not only affecting them, we’re affecting their entire familly and that kind of loss is