Persuasive Essay On Immigration

Immigration: What We Should Do

What are we doing to help immigrants in their time of need? America and Europe are going to immigration crisis like no other. Countless people have crossed their borders and the seems nowhere in sight.While some countries say they can 't afford the immigrants entering their borders, People need to welcome the incoming immigrants because it is morally wrong to kick them out of the country because they didn 't come here legally and they are also dying to get into a safer country in search for a better life for themselves and their families.

If that wasn’t bad enough, people are trying to stop others from helping those in need. In the article “Mexican activist says planned annual migrant protest hindered by threats

The Mediterranean Sea is known as the “Sea of Death.” The CNN staff wrote “The death of more than 300 African migrants in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa in early October has shone a spotlight on illegal immigration to Europe. But although the tragedy at Lampedusa shocked the world, it has done little to dissuade migrants who continue to mqke the perilous journey accross the Mediterranean from Northern Africa to European shores.” The CNN staff shows that no matter what happens, the migrants are still willing to cross the Sea of Death in hopes of a better

The article, “Toddler’s image stops us in our tracks,” written on September 2015 by Beth-Giat reported a horrible tragedy to hit a family. Ben-Ghiat wrote, “Images of migrants’ suffering, and of humanitarian rescue, have filled our news for more than a year now. They have become such a common sight in the media that we hardly see them. Then, one image comes along that stops us in our tracks: a toddler, lying dead on beach in Turkey.” Ben-Ghiat says that people have grown used to the tragedies, but those images of the child lying on the beach, touches even the toughest person at the core. The image is painful to watch. Imagine if that was someone familiar. The child’s mother and and brother died as well. The only surviving member of the family, the child’s father, brought their bodies from Turkey back to the the city the family fled from for burial. The journey doesn 't always have a happy