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    Should Children of Illegal Immigrants be entitled to a Public Education? In this country, over 100,000 people immigrate to this country every year, and a vast majority of those immigrate here illegally. Of course, like most human beings, those people reproduce, and the children who are the offspring of said illegal immigrants are not allowed a public education in certain states of the US, but I say that leaving children to be uneducated is an atrocity and that it should be changed. Not only are

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    those 7.5 billion, 232 million are "illegal immigrants". Most immigrants in the United States and Greece make dangerous trips to cross the border. Those dangerous trips could include getting beaten, rape, and starvation. Immigrants go through things they shouldn't have to even after crossing the border like getting deported to a poor or war-zone country, being treated inhuman, and separation between loving families. Who is one to tell another they are an immigrant and if they are one to judge what

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    Illegal immigration has been one of the main topics during the last three presidential election. Many bills and laws have been passed in order to keep them out but is it really necessary to neglect illegal immigrant? Most Americans believe that illegal immigrants are only people of Mexicans or Latin American descent but illegal immigrants can be from any race or country. Illegal immigration is defined by United States Department of Homeland Security as “… all foreign-born non-citizens who are not

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    analysis of illegal immigration in the United States reveals one challenge facing the banks and other institutions: whether to provide banking and other services to the illegal immigrants or to treat them as criminals because they are illegal and therefore, not to provide them with banking and other services. The articles, “Crossing the Line” by Stein and “Illegal Immigrants – They’re Money,” by Rodriguez discuss the impact of illegal immigration in the United States and how the illegal immigrants should

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    Attention Step (quotation, question, or story) About four months ago in government class, we had a class discussion. The topic was illegal immigration. One student said that America should send the illegal immigrants back to their country because they are taking American’s jobs. He stated that he would send his dad back to Mexico because he is an illegal immigrant. Going around the circle that we created, everyone gave their opinions, most disagreed, but some agreed with the student. When it was

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    Illegal immigration Over the past few years illegal immigration has become a bigger problem. Statistics reveal that more and more immigrants are entering the country illegally by crossing the borders. If something is not done soon, this may get out of hand and be to gone far not to handle. The number of illegal immigrants have gone up over the past years drastically "In 2011, there were 40 million immigrants in the U.S. Of that 11.1 million were illegal." Although the number of illegal

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    million illegal immigrants live in America” (Watkins). According to the recent study, “The Percentage of immigrants living in the U.S.A. is almost fourteen percent”(Wooldridge). This problem is an issue to the U.S. and will be an issue to all of the nations including europe, asia, etcetera. if it is not fixed. Reason is that the immigrants get more government help or welfare some may call it, than the registered citizens of America. Studies show that 51 percent of homes led by immigrants are getting

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    Since the 1980s, the US government has undertaken initiatives to make its borders more non-porous to illegal immigration from its neighboring countries. The menace of illegal immigrants seeking better opportunities in the USA started reflecting in the 1970s. The migrating people are motivated by the better non-skilled or semi-skilled employment opportunities in the USA and the relatively higher remuneration for services rendered in the USA than in the neighbor countries especially Mexico (Hanson

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    furtively, preferably beneath the protective cover of darkness, jumping fences, eluding guards and dodging two hundred -ton locomotives in a perilous dash for the most elusive of prizes, a free ride to the north. According to Jose Flores, an illegal Mexican immigrant seeking work in the United States says, “To be truthful, I have no idea of precisely where this train goes, other than it takes us to el norte” (Griffin 363+). The fact that each night literally hundreds of men and women clamber over the

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    recent discussion s of illegal immigration, a controversial issue has been whether or not to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in the U.S. On the one hand, some argue that amnesty shouldn’t be granted to illegal criminals. From this perspective, there are downfalls that many ignore and is unjust and stereotypical that all illegals are dangerous criminals. On the other hand, however, others argue that amnesty should be granted to illegal immigrants and how all of us are immigrants. In the words of one

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