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    Illegal Immigrants Taking Advantage of the United States Should illegal immigrants be allowed to get in for free? Should they be allowed to enter while others spend years following the rules in order to gain their legal entry? In today’s society, the people of the United States are being taken advantage by the illegal immigrants. There are many examples in the news today demonstrating illegal immigrants shouldn’t be allowed to cross the border like the economic deficit, crime or the protection of

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    conclusion about immigration. Although I still feel some emotional tie to how we should enforce immigration being a child of an immigrant parent I recognize that I have to base my opinion with facts and truth. I agree that its a big issue that poses a lot of problems and that if we don’t look at it as a problem the situation will only get worse. And I think the problem is more about security and not so much economics like I stated in my first post. The enforcement to keep illegal aliens out of the

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    Stop Illegal Immigration

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    of immigration, most of the Americans believe that out of all immigrants most of them are illegal, but studies show that at least 75 percent of immigrants are legal. Illegal immigration has been a problem since the first recordings in the late nineteenth century. With a law prohibiting illegal entries, we tried to prevent this developing problem and develop our immigration policy. The US’s immigration policy should have some updates because we aren’t doing anything to stop illegal immigration, our

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    Are illegal immigrants harming our country. The debate over illegal immigration has been a controversial topic for years. There are many people who think that illegal immigration is fine, but there are many people that thinks thats it is not ok. Illegal immigration, is where some immigrants cross the border without a passport or green card. Illegal immigration has caused tons of jobs and other activities to decrease in the United States. I am against illegal immigration, it increases our population

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    According to the article, “Illegal immigration in the U.S.,” in 2015, 5% of the U.S. workforce were unauthorized illegal immigrants. In addition to that, in 2014 there were about 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. Since 1990, this number quadrupled, in the early 90’s there were only about 3 million immigrants. Illegal immigrants who act in accordance to the law and cease to have a criminal record shouldn’t be deported. It is unfair to deny children who are innocent and don’t have

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    Illegal Immigration Cons

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    Illegal immigration (also referred to unauthorized or undocumented immigrants) refers to the migration of people across borders in a way that violates the immigration laws and entering or remaining in the United States without the permission from the United States government. According to preliminary Pew Research Center about 11.3 million illegal immigrants have been added to United States since 2013. The Congressional Budget Office or CBO expect 36 million new immigrants over next two decades if

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    Garcia 12 Jacqueline Garcia Professor Don Miller ENG 111 19 November 2017 Should illegal immigrants be able allowed to stay in the U.S.? Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in America. According to the dictionary definition, an illegal immigrant also known as an illegal alien is “a foreigner who enters a country without an entry or immigrant visa, especially a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson”

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    America, they did it to follow their own faith and religion. On July 4th, 1789 the Founding Fathers of the United States signed the Constitution in which contributes the first seven immigrants to live in the U.S., such as Alexander Hamilton. Illegal immigration is the migration of people across national borders in a way that violates

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    currently 11.4 million illegal immigrants living among us in the United States. It is a big issue at hand, and a solution is yet to be found. Should we be limiting the number of immigrants we allow into our country? The answer is yes. Illegal immigration is a costly issue in the united states, and limiting the number of immigrants we allow into our country, will allow us to contain the epidemic we are facing. First, 89 percent of Americans believe that illegal immigration in the United States is

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    Should illegal immigrants be allowed to become U.S. citizens? Should they be deported and not be allowed to pursue a better way of life in America? Immigrants did want, in fact, to become Americans in every sense of the word, not just in terms of the ability to achieve a measure of economic prosperity. Immigrants and refugees are entrepreneurs, job creators, taxpayers, and consumers. According to Center for American Progress “They add trillions of dollars to the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP

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