Latin Immigration Argumentative Analysis

In his announcement speech in June 2015, the candidate and now president of the U.S. Donald trump said: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best…They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." This believe about Latin immigration has been spreading all over the nation, considering them as a risk. Even though, the percentage of the American society that supports Latino increases at a slow rate, there is a significant amount of benefits that they bring to the country and that are hidden by the media or simply ignored. Regardless of the controversy and criticism that has been …show more content…
Even though they might bring the money to support their families, their overall physical and mental health face daily issues, causing them emotional distress and at some point the risk of losing their lives. These people do an unhuman effort, they take the job that anybody else wants because there are families behind them, who need economical and emotional support, but this is not always the case. The uncertainty factor plays an important role in Latin immigration, these people live each day without knowing what is going to happen the next day. Since there is no legal status, no contract, no health insurance, each day in the U.S. could be their last one. According to a study done by Patricia Cabazos and Luis Zayas, both PhD’s, this daily fear of deportation can lead to problems like depression, anger and overall mental instability which decreases their productivity and …show more content…
The people who are in charge, sometimes referred as “coyotes” play with the lives of hundreds of people who are seeking for a better future in the U.S. They go against the human rights and treat the people as animals and slaves. Other than asking for big amounts of money in order to cross the border, this traffickers often threaten the people to carry dangerous objects with them, including weapons and drugs. In the case they refuse, the traffickers either shoot them to death or leave them in the middle of the desert, with very low probabilities of surviving. In most of the times, the immigrants accept to carry this objects with the risk of getting caught anytime and not only being deported, but also getting imprisoned because of the drugs and the weapons they carry. This type of mafia is sustained by illegal immigration, and it won’t stop until immigration policies are revised. There is so many people trying to cross the border, which they are willing to do anything in order to get into the U.S. Also, violence is involved in these situations, drug dealers along with criminal organizations also known as ‘cartels’ bring terror by kidnapping and murdering innocent people. The border areas are the most dangerous which often involve confrontations between these groups in order to attain a change in government regulations or about new

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