This is not a request just for Mexican people, it is for all that countries that want a better way of life. ... I think that US should think more about this. ... This is the polleros life, they always do whatever they want to do because the police never arrest them, I know that just a few polleros are arrested and they receive the maximum sentence of eight years. ... They are doing the work that Americans don't want to do. ... I disagree, with Americans. ...

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I thought the Mexicans just migrated to the U.S. because their government was bad to them. And then I found out that they moved to the U.S. because of water and jobs and better resources. ... Over the past century, Mexican migrants were negatively selected: those who left Mexico usually had less education and fewer skills than the average Mexican, and most of the Mexicans who arrived had their first US jobs in seasonal agriculture (Martin 1993). ... She came because of my mom came and the reason that my mom came was because my dad died and she wanted to forget everything bad like all the mem...

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Other want to opportunity to study and have a great career be a doctor or a lawyer but can't back home. ... -Mexican border its only Mexicans trying to cross but no. there are Cubans, Salvadorans, Honduran, etc. ... -Mexican border. ... That's what I think unjust. ... Some people take this lightly, but I do not. ...

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But if I were to choose whether to build a wall or not and have immigration restrictions I would have to say no. ... " My opinion on whether to build a wall or not is I think we should not. ... If they want to work, let them work. If they want to learn, let them learn. ... You do not have to be a native born to be a true American I personally think. ...

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Obama has his eyes on the prize of change, he uses words like "I will" or "As President, I intend to". ... Obama uses language like "I support" and "I believe we need to." ... Regarding immigration, on the site http://barrackobama.com, the president says the following regarding Immigration: "Create Secure Borders Obama and Biden want to preserve the integrity of our borders. ... Work with Mexico Obama and Biden believe we need to do more to promote economic development in Mexico to decrease illegal immigration." ...

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I feel like it would not be any stretch of the imagination to assume everyone would like to live a privileged life. ... For instance, say a family of four (a mother, a father, and two children) come to the US illegally from Mexico and decide to settle in the state of Texas. To reach Texas coming from Mexico, they will have to cross the wide Rio Grande, which is the river that creates the boundary line between Texas and Mexico. ... When the parents have their children holding jobs as a result of low-wages, they will probably want the kids to get an education, so their next generation won...

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Statistics compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center report that an estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants resided in the United States in 2012, 58% of that population being from Mexico (Passel). ... In his movie, "Sleep Dealers," director Alex Rivera takes his viewers decades into the future where none of these burdens related to immigration exist; the borders have been shut down and the only interaction that the United States maintains with immigrant workers is through robots controlled by Mexican workers in factories across the border in Ciudad Tijuana, Mexico. ... But when a workers want to c...

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I thought to myself, Why wouldn't the US want to provide citizenship to these highly skilled and educated people? ... I also learned that most undocumented immigrants who come to the United States want to live the American Dream. They want to pay taxes, get a job, support their family, buy a car, and vote in elections. ... I realized that the majority of undocumented immigrants are regular people who just want a better life for their families. ... When I lived in San Francisco, there was a very large Asian and Mexican population with varying degrees of immigration status. ...

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"Keep the Door Open - Safely" " Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door- This is an excerpt from the inscription on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. ... Information and intelligence access and sharing is the best way to protect America from those that want to do it harm. ... In the past, United States immigration policy has concentrated on the Mexican border while the Canadian border has basically been ignored. The...

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Having family in Honduras and being from there, I can say many of the people that migrate to the US is to escape the violence that is caused by the war on drugs that has been pushed towards Central America from Mexico, creating a bridge between them and South American countries such as Colombia for the smuggling of drugs (mostly cocaine). ... Overall, with both parties combined, half of them are pro deportation, and a little less than half want to give some migrants a chance (WSJ/NBC News Poll, Washington Wire). ... I believe the US should limit and prohibit most of the immigrants coming in, e...

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I think this statement tells the truth, however. ... "We want to get rid of it, because it has been done the wrong way," Schwarzenegger said (Sacramento Bee). ... "For what killed California as the golden land was massive and unrestricted immigration from the Third World, an unrepelled invasion from Mexico, and a failure to protect the U.S. manufacturing base and the wages of America's workers" (Buchanan). ...

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The current issue we can compare mob violence to is the recent events in Ferguson Missouri over the Michael Brown killing, and In New York over the Eric Garner incident or better known as the I can't breathe movement. ... We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better"(Mitt Romney). ... According to data collected by the department of homeland security in 2012 fifty nine percent of the illegal immig...

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