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    Issue & Objective The United States primary policy issue with the Colombia is the worrying high percentages of the drug traffic and production smuggled to the U.S through the past years; as a consequence of, the Colombia status as the world’s principal cocaine-production nation. During 2000 and 2010, drug users in the United States spend on the order of $100 billion annually on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine, but in 2000, much more money was spent on cocaine than marijuana; in…

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    than those who are citizens. They are reliable workers, thankful for a job, and well behaved due to fear of deportation. Immigrants pay many taxes including, real-estate taxes, taxes on goods they purchase, and taxes on gas. Welfare, healthcare and government assistance is not available to them so they are not using tax payers money for help. They also contributed some 15 billion dollars to social security. Bourgeoise, those that own the means of productions, are benefiting tremendously by using…

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    Mariposas Amarillas mainly works in Santa Marta, Colombia with children and their families. The founder of Yellow Butterflies Oscar Cortes was at one point of his life one of these kids living in the slums, he was part of a really poor family with many brothers and sisters and he puts it. He also talks about how most of his brothers and sisters left the house at a very young age. Even Oscar left his house when he was only 10 years old and he traveled Colombia by himself living on the streets…

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    United States illegally making immigration a big issue. Policies regarding immigrants moving to the United States are very strict making it difficult for people of the less fortunate to come over legally. John Savant wrote an article on how the government…

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    Lopez 4 Claudia Lopez Mrs Sharifian Government 2305 The 14th Amendment In the United States the fourteenth amendment has been talked about a lot both in positive ways and negative, are immigrant families abusing it and making unfair to other families? There is a big question, whether the fourteenth amendment is being abused or is a few bad things that happened overtaking the goodness and advantage other families are doing. There have been many occasions and suspicious activity in the United…

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    Latin America has long been fighting an uphill battle against corruption. From colonization, to authoritarian systems, and then further to democratization, corruption has plagued and dominated Latin American societies. One may assume that corruption is mainly found within the political systems of Latin America, but rather, corruption besets the personal lives of its citizens as well. One instance of many corrupt scandals is the Petrobras Scandal. The scandal now involving Brazil’s president…

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    1810 marked the beginning of the Spanish American Rebellions when nations in Latin America began to gain their independence from Spain. With the help of patriot rebels and a growing sense of nativism amongst the colonies, nations such as Mexico and Peru fought for independence. Mexico’s journey involved a large uprising of indigenous and mestizo populations that sparked the concept of nativism that led Mexico’s patriot armies to independence. Peru, on the other hand, avoided a large rebellion…

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    of immigrants to live in fear, even though they are wrongfully in this country this issue requires a coherent solution. With both having and not having sanctuary cities there is bound to be drastic changes. These changes are laid out to help the government and the law to determine the status of the people that come in and out of the country, take part of…

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    Your Honour, I Jennifer Sanchez provide this reference in full knowledge of my uncle J Cruz Sanchez-Duarte charge of Deportation. I have known J Cruz Sanchez-Duarte(my uncle) for eighteen years, my entire life. Additionally,I know him as a father,husband, and uncle. His life consisted of caring for his four daughters and wife, this was possible with the devotion he had in his fellow job in Executive Construction and Mp Mechanics. Where he has been working the past ten years in…

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    Abolishing birthright citizenship is a much more delicate issue as it could cause more problems than it actually fixes. For now, I believe that we should not get rid of birthright citizenship because of the many problems that it may cause. Donald Trump’s view to abolish birthright citizenship has some flaws, as the actual deportation of several illegal immigrants would cost several thousands of dollars to execute. Trump states that illegal immigrants are taking the jobs of American citizens, not…

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