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    The United States of America has always been a refuge where poor and oppressed people from the far corners of the world can come to begin a new life. Much of the nation’s allure to prospective immigrants is in its promise of equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, or color. But the pressures of rising unemployment rates, congested cities, a crippled healthcare system, and national debt skyrocketing out of control have caused America to defend her borders against the influx of immigrants

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    Under IRCA 2.7 illegal aliens mostly from Mexico were given legal immigrant status. These new laws opened the door to the longest and largest wave of immigration ever-27 million since 1965, including illegal entries. The visa waiver pilot program (VWPP) is designed

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    One of the most controversial topics today in politics is what to do about illegal immigration in the United States. Should we consider all of the illegal immigrants felons? Should we give them full citizenship rights? These are all important questions related to illegal immigration. In 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act made it illegal for employers to knowingly hire undocumented workers and imposed fines of up to $11,000 for each violation. Recently, the United States House of Representatives

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    including other people have made for the act. The dream act will help our economy marketing easier for immigration enforcements efforts on undocumented immigrants "Who pose a threat to our country" (Zehr, 2010,). The development relief and education for aliens minors act or dream act provide a path for legalization for undocumented high school graduates who meet the requirements of completing two years of college, military service, have entered United States before the age of 16, must be between the age

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    other states without following the recommended legal procedures (Hoffmeier, 2009). At first, the governments experiencing cases of illegal immigration need to enforce their laws of immigration and to crack down on those employers that hire illegal aliens. The governments should decide to make it a felony act for employing people without undergoing the proper channels of immigration and checking the applicant’s background (Gaines & Kappeler, 2011). The only way of making illegal immigrants leave the

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    persist in modern day immigration. In year of 1925, under authorization of Congress, Border Patrol took action on arresting aliens without warrant. In my point of view they don’t even have no statutory authority to proceed that. At the same time the illegal entry was in effect, a quota law which is the restrictive immigration policy, started producing more and more illegal aliens. I prove this wrong because putting limits based on racial type, nationality of world’s population in order of desirability

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    been faced with unemployment, while struggling to find steady work. In 2011 8.7% of Arizonans were officially unemployed, but in the prior year, 9.3% of illegal aliens made up the workforce. That’s 262,587 Arizonans left without jobs and 278,460 illegal aliens with jobs. b) 37% of Arizona’s uninsured population contained is illegal aliens, which was costing Arizona $320 million annually. c) New reports show that tens-of-thousand illegal children will be attending public schools all over Arizona

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    a sense challenging the patriarchal expectations of the time, films began to reflect this change. One of the genres in which this change became the most prevalent was the action film. Sarah Connors in the Terminator films and Ellen Ripley in the Alien films, serve as excellent examples. However, as female heroines become the focus of these narratives, their traditional feminine traits, such as emotional expressivity, tenderness, and passiveness, are replaced with attributes like strength and aggression

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    “Every Night I would look up at the sky and wonder if we were alone, until I met Paul then i got my answer.Paul is a alien that I met two days ago, and ever since then my life has been pretty interesting. I’ll start from the beginning, two nights ago i was out walking my dog bert and we walk through a field as a shortcut to get home faster and when we were walking through the field i saw a bright light coming in my direction so I started running out of its way and then I heard that loudest sound

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    As the issue of undocumented immigrants once again dominates the news headlines, our politicians are faced with the difficult task of enforcing the laws of our land, yet humanely and ethically tending to those who illegally reside within America 's borders. As the political parties face off with differing ideologies, the undocumented, who are seen as victims from one side and criminals from the other, are caught in this citizenship purgatory until a political compromise can be achieved. Until such

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