We are starting a new english assignment, which is a problem/solution essay. My topic is on immigration reform. I started thinking more about immigration because of my last essay topic, which was about my chosen Kiva candidate who was from El Salvador. As I was researching El Salvador, I found out that gang violence is a big problem in El Salvador. The gang activity is so bad that El Salvador is now one of the countries with the highest murder rates.
I had never thought much about immigration until I starting reading some of the articles about why parents are sending their children to America illegally. They are trying to protect their children from the violence. That's when I started to think more about immigration and the why of the equation. So, my focus on immigration is to help people to be better informed about this very important topic, which is also a hot topic for the Presidential candidates. I read a lot of generalizations about immigrants and their reasons for coming over here, but the bottom line is this country was founded by immigrants and we need to look at the reasons they came to America in the first place. Their reasons are the very reasons people are still coming to America today. We need immigration reform that will help immigrants with a path towards citizenship and we also need to keep families together!
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