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As each year passes, our country is being slowly smothered and choked to death by illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants who come into the United States without visas and proper documentation used this to their advantage; they get to apply for jobs and get to avoid paying government taxes. Whereas hardworking immigrants who go through the long process of being admitted to this country are being discriminated against because they are immigrants. As Frank Alfonso states in USA Today, “Coming into the USA illegally is similar to cutting in front of a long supermarket line. There are immigrants who wish to obey the law. They applied for visas long before the throngs who are now demanding rights. It's time for those lawbreakers to start at the back of the line, too.”( Alfonso) I believe he is right and that this is uncalled for and in truth against the American value of no discrimination regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity.
Yet, these illegal immigrants have the audacity to say that they are in the right, and that they should not be screened and deported back to their country. In the article Immigrant activism taking a bold turn, there are many discussions on how illegal immigrants are boycotting businesses that support stricter immigration laws to try to get their opinions heard and to show that the U.S. “needs” them. (Bazar) To me this is a big slap to Americans in the face! These people who are being hired illegally and do not pay government taxes are now complaining because they are not being treated like a legal immigrant. The reason they are being treated like criminals is that they are criminals; it is against the law to immigrate to the United States illegally.
Many legal immigrants are protesting against these illegal ones, as seen in the article Legal but in Limbo, Skilled Immigrants Rally for Change. They are upset that because of all the illegal immigrants their own rights are being suppressed because of the new laws being forced onto...