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Immigration is here to stay. My opinion on immigration is that it is a part of the United States when it began, and it is a part of the United States today. There are a huge number of people who cannot be accounted for because they illegally enter this country. However, I do not believe that building a fence, or puppy guarding the borders will lessen immigration. I do not know the resolution to the influx of people. People will go where ever there is work, and there is little to no work in Latin American countries.

Latin Americans are the biggest group of immigrants to the U.S especially in California. The United States has extremely questionable activities involving many Latin American businesses, and their government. The many Americans protesting and patrolling the boarders against immigration should first protest the U.S government for leaving their countries in the states they are in today. I think if immigrants lived in places were there was work, they would not want to leave in the first place.

I believe the bigger issue at hand, is that many immigrants provide a non-talk-back, non-pay- roll complaining cheap work force. If many of these people received armistice it would leave many California fields empty. In my opinion the immigration issue is not entirely about overcrowding and the loss of U.S resources. The immigration issue is about U.S corporations making big business, by keeping an entire group of people repressed. The fast food chains can give an immigrant lousy hours, with lower than minimum wage pay. The “illegal” person who does not comply will probably not find work elsewhere, because of their legal status. There is something that we can all agree on, immigration is not something that can be fixed over night. So as of right now immigration is here to stay.