Illegal Immigration Analysis

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We’ve all seen the Internet and TV go wild when America’s candidate Donald Trump spoke. He promises a great wall to be built between the US and Mexico, due to the fact that millions of immigrants have fled illegally to the US through the border. In 2004, 1.3 million people were caught trying to enter the US illegally. Even though modern technologies were used the authorities still finds it difficult to find the remote areas that people use to cross the border illegally. This will affect the sentiments attached relating to the border by Mexicans but the US will still have to find an efficient way to fix this through different actions. Hence, I believe that the immigrants are posing a threat to the States. The article uses a structure …show more content…

He observes that due to many illegal immigrants America’s middle class is suffering because of them, this showed good evidence so the audiences can relate. Furthermore, the author adds to his argument by including previous actions and suggestions of political leaders to reduce the number of illegal immigrants. This illustrates that this is an ongoing issue to the government. More to add, the author uses numbers, which helps send the big picture for the audience. In the first stanza itself, the author starts off with statistical numbers of the problem which made it clear and not hard to find. He says, “More than 1.3 million people were caught trying to enter the Unites States illegally from Mexico in 2004”. The author has tried to emphasise on his point by giving statistics as in the first stanza itself he says that more than 1.3 million people were caught while they tried to enter the States illegally. He further says that in spite of the Border patrolling becoming more sophisticated, the number of illegal immigrants had not been reduced considerably. Although, the no. Of peasants along the southern border had approximately been increased 5.5 times. The …show more content…

So, we can say that the information and facts provided by the author is presented in a more or less logical way. But since he has accumulated statistics along with the ongoing discussions, he could not maintain a chronological order which otherwise would have provided a more influencing and persuasive view point. Overall structure doesn't help the main claim the most by not providing appropriate transitions that could have made a flawless article. The article ends with a call of action which summarized the author’s argument. All in all, the author makes solid points regarding this ongoing problem and shows that no one is taking any direct actions toward fixing it. All this was shown through article components such as structure, evidence, language and main claim and cited in the form of statistics, interviews, personal observations and surveys. Whatever might be the overall analysis, one point that stands out it, through his article, the author has been able

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