The Role Of Illegal Immigrants In The United States

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First off, this would increase illegal immigration. If immigrants from other countries see that illegal immigrants in the US can get citizenship, then they are just going to come here illegally rather than wait for the long hard process of legal immigration. Second, we would be rewarding criminals. People living in the United States have to pay for there crimes, should illegal immigrants too? By giving undocumented immigrants citizenship we would be rewarding criminals. Like Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet Common Sense, "In America, LAW is king!" Not only are these criminals breaking the law by coming here illegally, but a lot of them are expanding on there crime! I suppose you would want to give citizenship to Marita Nelson, who came
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