Immigration has been an ongoing issue in the United States of America for a very long time mainly because of the shared borders with Mexico. ... The biggest influx of workers coming into this country is from Mexico. They find employment in agricultural work because it is one of the lowest paying jobs that most Americans do not want. ... This last one really surprised me because of the drug and gang related violence I have been reading about in the press about Mexico where the outlaws have total control over certain areas, towns and cities. ... As for the Canada-Mexico program, I am not at all ...

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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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Their motivation had taken after a French privateer apprehended a Spanish ship loaded with Mexican gold and silver. Spurred by desires of great wealth, Francis I, sent Giovanni da Verrazano to discover a northwest passage through the North America to India in 1524. ... The French Empire, although it wanted the American gold and silver, they were mostly interested in searching a westward route to Asia....

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I think that putting more money in education instead of increasing penalty would be more effective. ... Long before Jonesboro, the governors of California and New Mexico appealed in the name of victims for juvenile crime for laws to lower their state's execution ages to 14 and 13 respectively. They wanted to abolish the protective segregation of child from adult inmates and limit parole for juvenile offenders. ... I believe this shouldn't have happened. ... I doubt that a ten year-old be conscious of what he is doing. ...

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