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America’s Weakness: Illegal Immigration As all Americans know, illegal immigration is a huge controversy, but how can it be solved? As it stands, there is two options, and each option branches into another idea. The first option, make all illegal immigrants legal citizens. The second option is to simply deport all of these illegal immigrants. Currently in the United States, the largest election in the history of U.S elections has finally ended. Both candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both had major stances on illegal immigration. “Hillary will end family detention for parents and children who arrive at our border in desperate situations and close private immigrant detention centers,” while Donald Trump wants to “enforce the immigration laws of the United States and restore the Constitutional rule of law upon which America’s prosperity and security depend.” Donald Trump won the election so within our country we will be seeing a ton of illegal immigrants being deported, but is that the right thing to do? …show more content…

His plan is to deport them, then if the illegal immigrant wishes to re-enter the country, they will require a background check, to see if they are dangerous or not. If they only crossed illegally and did nothing negative in society, then they may start a legal path to U.S citizenship, if they were a criminal, they will not be allowed to regain entry into the U.S. The biggest problem with this system, is that people will be separated from their families. Children born in the U.S by illegal parents are considered U.S citizens. These are called anchor babies and “nearly 10% of all births in the nation in recent years were to illegal immigrant mothers.” By deporting all illegal immigrants, you strip away that child’s parents, making him or her an

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