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Argumentative Essay On Immigration

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Immigration Argumentative Essay For years, immigration has been an issue towards the U.S. government, continuously going back and forward between two different sides of the debate. Many political figures, including Congress and the Presidents have mentioned immigration, but so far, not much has changed. As of 2016, there are 11 million undocumented people, living in fear of what might happen to their families. Although it is true that they may be here illegally, these undocumented residents should receive a path to citizenship because it is costly to break apart families, they help our economy, and the U.S is based off immigrants, their families, and their ideas, so they should therefore be given a “path to citizenship”. One important reason

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