Summary: Pardon Of Illegal Immigration

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In the past, I used to be a walking paradox- how can an immigrant not be an advocate for the pardon of illegal immigration? At the age of seven, after an arduous process of obtaining our green cards in order to legally live in the United States, my family and I migrated from the city of Barcelona, Spain to the Land of Opportunity. Remembering the experience of this lengthy process, I couldn’t help but feel aggravated towards the idea of other people immigrating to the United States illegally, and by what I thought then, simply jumping over a wall. Thus, I perceived illegal immigrants as people who liked to take shortcuts; idle people who refused to work hard, yet expected to receive the same amount of opportunities as others. With this misconception

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