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Argumentative Essay On Immigration

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El PASO, Texas— While President Trump is focused on immigrants crossing the border illegally, people that live in Mexico who are U.S citizens and Mexican students cross the border legally to come to work and school.
According to the city of El Paso international the three bridges that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, operate 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Thousands of people cross both ways over the border every day.
People cross the international bridges to go to work and school almost every day. Many of them are Mexican citizens that have working visas, student visa or there are just parents that come to drop their children to school. U.S citizens who live in Ciudad Juarez and work stateside cross the bridge as well in a daily basis. …show more content…

According to the U.S Embassy and Consulates in Mexico “a citizen of a foreign country who seeks to enter the United States generally must first obtain a U.S. visa, which is placed in the traveler’s passport, a travel document issued by the traveler’s country of citizenship.”
Angel Salazar is a 22-year-old U.S citizen that lives in Ciudad Juarez since 2014 when he came to study at El Paso community college. He decided to live in Mexico and work here in the United States because is cheaper. He crosses the bridge 10 to 13 times per week and it takes him about 10 minutes to cross from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso.
Some people might get in trouble for crossing every day because the costumes and border patrol agents might thing that people are doing something illegal outside the U.S. “they asked me why do I cross so much, why do I choose to live over there and they usually they handcuff me and take me to the back,” he said.
Denise Tovar is a 22-year-old graduate student from University of Texas at El Paso. She is a U.S citizen who recently lives here at El Paso, but used to live in Ciudad Juarez a few years ago. “I don’t cross as often as I used to, I would said twice a month, I usually go visit family or just go to the doctor,” she

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