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Illegal Immigration
Illegal immigration in the United States
By
Sabaa Tovar

United States of America is considered the most powerful country in the universe, however ; it is a country that is far from perfection.

I consider that America economy is in an endless black whole with issues , such as, unemployment, budget cuts , violence, drugs trafficking, gun control laws, education budget cuts (insane), health care and Illegal immigration.

The last issue mentioned in the previous paragraph “Illegal Immigration” memories from college when I took a class named ,U.S History since 1877 .
When I took this class it was an eye opener experience, why? because I learned that this country was built from the bottom to the top by immigrants from Europe, China, Japan, Africa, Asia , Hispanics and many more. Consequently, Illegal immigration is a subject that touches my heart in a special way. Why? because I am an immigrant myself.

Nowadays, there are millions of people who have an illegal status. I am not referring only to hispanics, I am referring to anybody that came to America to achieve the American Dream with a tourist VISA or illegally entered by crossing the border of our nation and stayed.

Even though I fully understand that still illegal to fool a government that gave a privilege of visiting their territory. For example It is like somebody come to visit you at your house and suddenly says:
“You know what I like your house so much, your food, your car, even your bed and I decided to stay move into your house, plus I don’t care what you think I’m staying, on top of that I don’t want to help neither with rent and food, so...”

Everything is not what it seems, let’s imagine that desperation and frustration that a human being can feel that drags he/her to risk it all, even their lives to be able to come and stay in U.S
Almost 60% of all illegal immigrants come from Mexico by crossings the border, and from Central

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