Immigrant Children Should Be Illegal Immigrants

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The United States of America is known for almost about everything. From military power to having the democracy that other countries still strive for, it’s a country where people could do what they are passionate for, and be what they want to be in their lives. Different races come to the United States with the belief that there’s a good future ahead of their own families rather than staying in their country, wherein they probably don’t receive much aid from the government, or there’s no job available for them at all. To provide for their family, especially their children, parents risk their lives to get them in good hands even when it’s illegal for them to do so. The United States should allow illegal immigrant children to get the education they need because they didn’t have the choice to leave their own countries, they …show more content…
These undocumented children didn’t have the right minds to say “no” to their parents, and definitely not mature enough to argue what they want or don’t want in their lives because the parents are supposed to guide them through it as they age. Children shouldn’t be punished with their parents’ faults in a country that they don’t even know about. They probably only know about the United States because of studied histories that they learn about in school, if they’re about seven or eight-years old, or seeing cartoons on televisions that were made in the United States. Also, it would be nice if some people stop labeling undocumented children as “illegal” because it could possibly affect them emotionally and mentally without even having to know how and why they were labeled all of a sudden. And lastly, these children shouldn’t be entitled to what their parents’ statuses are because they’re already considered to be citizens of the country behind the law that was made in the past. The United States should help them experience having the education they

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