illegal immigration

A topic that many of my classmates have brought up is immigration. Illegal versus legal, how most people seem alright with legal immigrants, and then have problems with illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration is something that I have always gone back and forth about. I’m not perfect and can admit that I have had thoughts that if a person wants to come over to the U.S. that they should do it legally. I still think that if people want to come over that they should initially try to legally. But I understand that this is something that is easier said than done. I know that it is not as easy as it sounds, and that many people are refused to come here legally. I also understand and realize that there are cases where people have no choice but to come here, and use any method. That the only way they could support or help their family is to come to the U.S. I know personally if I had a choice to make a better life for myself and my family, and my only choice was to illegally go into a country that I most likely would. I think that especially if people have exhausted every method to get here legally, how can we blame them for doing it illegally? It is not like they have an easy life here, we have talked about how prejudice America is. That alone should tell people, that their life they left behind was worse. Also I have issues with penalizing people who have come here illegally. Especially if they have an established life here and have lived here for a long time, how can we just uproot a person’s life that has every right to live here as we do?

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