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Illegal Immigration Rhetorical Analysis
If history truly repeats itself, then what can we look at from our own past to compare with our world today? During the most recent presidential election there a lot of talk about building walls along the Mexican border, outsourcing of jobs, and illegal immigration. These issues particularly that of illegal immigration, are some that have plagued the United States since the Civil War came to an end. One of the major rhetoric’s in current politics that can be heard is about illegal immigrants taking American jobs. In the late 19th century, a California Labor leader by the name of Dennis Kearney spoke out against the Chinese immigrants and their cheap labor. In 1870 Harpers Weekly published a Thomas Nast cartoon with the title “Martyrdom of

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