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Fighting for Illegal Rights
Ana Masi
Ms. Apo
Period 1
18 September 2013
Fighting for Legal Rights The question of whether to let Illegal Immigrants become legal citizens has been a heated debate for decades. Illegal immigrants should have free will and independence just like the rest of the legal citizens. Immigrants leaving their country, looking for a job, and trying to find a better life just to create a more. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to be legal citizens due to having more freedom and rights in what they want to achieve in doing. It doesn't matter where you come from, what color you are, or how you look everybody is equal and deserve to have equal rights and chances in life. Without immigration, The United States would not be nearly so diverse as it is today. For every immigrant that comes to America fleeing political or religious persecution, thousands more came in hope of a better quality for themselves, for their families, and for their descendants (“Destination America”). Illegal immigrants would not leave their country for no reason, they just want to get away from all that has been happening whether that was good or bad. Millions of people who immigrated to America came to live in a democratic society or to worship freely (“Destination America”). There's a huge population of different ethnicity that transfer to America to have independency and to believe in their own faith. In the Mid 1800’s, Irish immigrants were scorned as lazy drunks. Today the same fears are raised about immigrants from Latin America and Asia, but current critics of immigration are as wrong as their counterparts were in previous era (“Enriched and Enhanced”). Citizens should not judge the ethnicities now to the ones back then because nowadays the illegal immigrants is what's making a difference in the world. Immigrants just want to find a better place to improve their living and to have a safe environment to do what they want to do so they come to America to do that since

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