The Toulmin method is a way to dissect an argument by breaking it apart to see the claim, evidence, and reasons so that the reader can make judgements on how well the parts were executed. There are lots of ideas and opinions about illegal immigration and how to correctly approach the issue to solve, however, there are “two approaches to illegal immigration that are currently being debated in Congress”. The step that should be taken by the government is giving the people what they want and not waste money on a wall, because it will not benefit the American people to waste billions of dollars on a wall when wages could increase.
The claim in “Raise Wages, Not Walls”, is conveyed as how America should raise wages of the people rather than spending …show more content…
More evidence is given on how the jobs immigrants are coming to do is because the wages are low and Americans aren’t willing to do them, it’s not that the people have …show more content…
Also, the example about how Americans would do dirty jobs if the wage was higher and had benefits, “plenty of Americans now” take some of the dirty jobs that have had a wage increase and “benefit for their labor” such as “mining coal to picking garbage” (Dukakis, Mitchell, 2009). There is statistical information that helps back their claim, the minimum wage “hasn’t been raised since 1997” and shows why immigrants have become a problem, and constituted how Massachusetts and California have already made provisions to increase the minimum wage (Dukakis, Mitchell, 2009). The ID card that was also spoken about to allow only Americans with the card to be employable if their identity is approved would cost billions of dollars and possibly have the effect of a black market being created for the distribution of counterfeit ID
The claim in “Raise Wages, Not Walls”, is conveyed as how America should raise wages of the people rather than spending …show more content…
More evidence is given on how the jobs immigrants are coming to do is because the wages are low and Americans aren’t willing to do them, it’s not that the people have …show more content…
Also, the example about how Americans would do dirty jobs if the wage was higher and had benefits, “plenty of Americans now” take some of the dirty jobs that have had a wage increase and “benefit for their labor” such as “mining coal to picking garbage” (Dukakis, Mitchell, 2009). There is statistical information that helps back their claim, the minimum wage “hasn’t been raised since 1997” and shows why immigrants have become a problem, and constituted how Massachusetts and California have already made provisions to increase the minimum wage (Dukakis, Mitchell, 2009). The ID card that was also spoken about to allow only Americans with the card to be employable if their identity is approved would cost billions of dollars and possibly have the effect of a black market being created for the distribution of counterfeit ID