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Summary Of The Article 'Analyzing The Immigration Debate'
Ana Lopez
Dr. Alexis Poe Davis
English 111
3/4/2014

The Time is Now The immigration is really coming down ha on undocumented immigrants. After many years of immigrants crossing the border, now the immigration wants to do something to stop it. After theses immigrants have been here in our country and have adapted to our life styles, the congress wants to cut off all off the resources instead of helping the immigrants. The state legislators and the congress take away jobs and licenses from immigrants enabling them to live. Studies have shown that this plane had back fired, because even though resources have been cut down there has been a tremendouse increase of immigrants still to this day crossing the border. In the year 2008 Obama
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Analyzing this article “Immigration debate” by Nathaniel Parish Flannery there are two different and reasonable sides to this story. The reason to this debatable issue is because of the simple fact that the Republican Party and the Democrat Part cannot decide wither to boost border control or to protect the immigrant workers. It is simply east to say just do them both but is not that easy said as done. Both of the projects require lots of tax dollars spent, but as Laura Allen that was interviewed in the Forbes article said all of us citizens would like to see our tax money spent differently. Allen said “I can very easily show you when people walk around the fence to get here, so why did we spend all that money?” It was said that the federal government gave 2.4 billion dollars for building the 670 miles of pedestrian and vehicular fences. It cost 15.1 million dollars per …show more content…
This just proves how blessed and participative they are with this opportunity. Also all of our companies that keep our economy up such as; construction, food service, and maintenance are made up of many immigrant workers. It is not to say that we depend on the immigrant workers but they do form part of our country. Even though illegal Immigrants’ had; many privileges taken away, and were not able to have a job. Illegal immigrants created small businesses all around in the U.S which helped create more jobs and help the economy rise even more. “Providing consistent, reliable access to both high-skilled and low-skilled talent is critical to sustain our nation’s global competitiveness in many industries including healthcare, technology manufacturing, hospitality, and tourism.” (Flannery) This statement proves that the United States is in need of the

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