According to the US Census Bureau, there are 10.4 million illegal immigrants in the United States today, 58% of whom are from Mexico (Randall 6). The border between the United States and Mexico stretches 1900 miles, from California to Texas, and it's one of the most frequently crossed international borders in the world. Although the United States patrols a large portion of the border, around 800,000 illegal Mexican immigrants manage to find ways to cross it every year, using methods like bypassing unpatrolled areas, tunneling under the border, forging fake documents, or simply overstaying...

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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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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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Furthermore I will also highlight a very important figure in this evolution, the twenty-eighth President of the United States Woodrow Wilson and how he faced this new situation, and how the anti-immigrant sentiment grew at the base of the Congress of the United States during his tenure. ... I have the least uneasiness as to the new arrivals all being gripped as we have been gripped. The vast majority who come to our shores come on their own initiative and have some understanding as to what they want and a definite object in view.... Gezea Kende told Wilson that many Hungarians considered him a...

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