A Refugee Crisis, Not An Immigration Crisis

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In the article, “A refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis” by Sonia Nazario, Sonia makes an argument claiming that the levels of young children leaving school for violence or drug issues have increased significantly in the recent years and that this trend is a severe problem with broad consequences. There are other claims that she makes which are also a severe problem globally. Various drug cartels and murders for example is one of the big issues to which young Americans are bound from and immensely scared from.
In the article, her ideas are varied from different children, who are actually very young from 11-15 years old, that have experienced any of these problems or know someone who has. At a young age, these children are experiencing

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