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Immigration especially illegal immigration has become topical issue these days. Immigration is said to have plenty of negativities because of the kinds of people that come over the U.S. border. I believe the positives outweigh those negatives. I understand there is a risk if immigrants who come into the U.S. may potentially bring more crime like: stealing, murder, rape, etc. For example the two illegal immigrant males from Mexico, who killed a 64 year old woman in her home in July of 2015 in the state of California. These are heinous crimes, but the individuals involved in crimes are just a small percentage of all the immigrants that come to the United States. Most immigrants come to the U.S. to avoid death in their former countries and make

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