Should Illegal Immigrants Be Banned

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People are always on the move in this new modern age. Cars, Trains, and Planes help us move around from places with relative ease. The United States has always been a destination where millions of people have wanted to go throughout the foundation of it. In recent years, many people have migrated towards here from neighboring Latin American countries. This poses the question, should illegal immigrants be banned? the answer to that is no, it should not be banned. The reasons have to do with the truth about gangs, the language barrier, the economy, having a better life and better education. There's a Republican Party candidate, the opposition, who made news earlier this year and last year by opposing illegals saying many cruel and harsh things …show more content…
I'm not the first one to say this. We've had many people over the years, for many, many years, saying the same thing. This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish." ("Donald Trump on Immigration.") So just because they don't speak English they can't live here? Truth is, Language is only a barrier if you make it one. Babies had to learn how to speak a language, adults can learn to speak a second one. Not all Immigrants come from Mexico or Latin America. There a immigrants from every part of the world. They come from Asia, Europe, and Africa. Immigrants can come from anywhere. "America's prisons house 351,000 criminal aliens who committed a crime after having already broken the law by entering American illegally. Making taxpayers pay for 351,000 criminals who should never have been here in the first place is ridiculous. The annual price tag to incarcerate these thugs is $1.1 billion. And get this: criminal aliens have an average of seven arrests. That's at least seven crimes committed against American citizens by each of these criminals who should never have been allowed to cross our borders"("Donald Trump on Immigration.") It's time to dispel these rumors. Secondly, The reason this is such a big topic is because everything he says is getting blown out proportions. Yes, Hispanic people tend to get into the most trouble because of gangs. The thing about that is that those are only a small percentage of a larger population. …show more content…
Those who rank the highest usually have excellent economies and are a very good place to raise a family. The United States of America: The richest country in the world. That is what we are known for in the entire world. Thanks to all the technology we do rank in the top 20 countries in the world. When immigrants do come here they have a perfect opportunity to send their kids to a school with a much better education than they ever had. Since in third world countries, more emphasis has been put into hard work rather than education because of the fact that those countries are still developing. When the children attend the schools here they are being encouraged to continue in education because continuing in education brings more rewards in the future. 92% of children in Latin America start primary school but only 35% of Mexican students go above what we would consider middle school.("Education and Inequality in Latin America.") They fall way below the standards of any education in any part of the world. When the statistics are there to prove that the education is really bad, then seeing so many illegals want a better life, without having to work tirelessly, becomes a norm. College is barely heard of down there too. Most kids go straight into the work force to help support their family and loved ones financially. Even the immigrants here work to be able to send money down to the homeland to help

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