1980s Immigration Research Paper

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What comes to mind regarding an historic event from the 1980s that had an impact in that era as well as in our current day of age is Immigration. I think that we as people don’t have a problem with immigrants coming to the country to better themselves and their families, it is only when they don’t want to follow the laws that so many before them had to perform to become a citizen of the United States. The number of illegal immigrants have increased steadily since the 1970s as American farmers relied on illegal immigrants with the harvest of their corps and they are not only working on farms. (Belkin pg. 818) In 2005 there was an “estimated 12 million” illegal immigrants living within the United States. (Belkin pg. 818) That number has only