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Arguments Against Unauthoriized Immigration

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Unauthorized Immigration has been one of the most controversial topics in the USA for decades. Since in the late 1800s, when the railroad that connected the U.S. border to the internal Mexico was built, U.S. employers have gained access to Mexican labor to a greater extent (Hanson 878). Later in the 1900s, especially after the Brocero Program in 1940, which allowed to recruit Mexican workers in order to fulfill year time contracts, migration to U.S. extended. U.S. employers tended to engage male and nearly uneducated migrants, who worked as farmers during the agriculture months and returned to Mexico after fulfilling their contracts (Hanson 878). Between 1954 and 1960, 300.000 to 450.000 migrants stepped onto U.S. grounds annually, therefore

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