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Editorial: ‘Immigration’ in a land that was never theirs
By: Lauryn Gibbs
Immigration is the double edged sword. Ask Donald Trump, and he’ll claim that immigrants are stealing jobs. Ask an immigrant, and they’ll say they came to America for a brighter future.
In the year 2014, 11.4 million immigrants were counted in the United States. Some people may view this as a threat, but immigrants take lower paying jobs, work longer hours and are often exploited.
Some people may say, “Immigrants don’t pay taxes!” Incorrect, every time an immigrant, legal or illegal, fills up their gas tank, buys a shirt or rent an apartment, they pay taxes. Their income may not be taxed, but the average illegal immigrant makes $24,000 a year.
Another person may say, “Immigrants bring gangs!” False. Ciudad Juárez, also commonly known as the ‘murder capital of the world’, is a prime example of why immigration exists, to escape. Juárez is known for slums, cheap labor, corrupt officials and vicious drug lords. People leave Juárez …show more content…

Going to Greece, Germany, or Turley is not a summer vacation for them. Syrian refugees simply have no other place to go, and anywhere is better that where they came from.
Another argument against immigration, is the derogatory term, ‘anchor babies.’ A so called ‘anchor baby’, is a child that was born in the United States, but has foreign born parents, allowing the parent to stay in the U.S. However, immigration judges still deport foreign born parents. In 2013, approximately 72,410 foreign born parents with children born on US soil were deported. The child can petition for their parents to join them in the US after the child turns 21, but the process is long and difficult.
So, even after all this, why is ‘immigration’ such a big deal? In the 1990’s, half of all workers, on the low and high end of the skill set spectrum, were foreign born. Immigrants fill in jobs in key areas, start their own business and help the

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