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Dreamers Persuasive Speech

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”His arms wrapped around his wife and two teenage children, Jorge Garcia's eyes welled up Monday morning as he looked into their eyes one last time near the entrance to the airport security gate at Detroit Metro Airport. His wife, Cindy Garcia, cried out while his daughter, Soleil, 15, sobbed into Garcia's shoulder as they hugged. Two U.S. immigration agents kept a close watch nearby.”(Niraj Warikoo)“Garcia was a Michigan man that didn't have any criminal records who was deported” (Niraj Warikoo). He was targeted for his race. Although the Dream Act may encourage more illegal immigration, dreamers should be allowed to stay in the United States to pursue their dreams and contribute to a stronger United States. Historically people have been …show more content…

“What if our kid's science teacher, or our friendly neighbor turns out to be a Dreamer? Where are we supposed to send her? To a country she doesn't know or remember, with a language she may not even speak?" (Alicia Parlapiano and Karen Yourish,) What if someone you know very well and are good friends with is a Dreamer and he or she gets deported and separated from their family. You won't ever see that friend again. You’re deporting them back to a country that won’t give them the right education and the same benefits. Sometimes we are even deporting important people that are doing good things for our country. Deporting them is not right because some of these people didn't make the choice of coming to the United States. It's not their fault they're just trying to live a good life and give their kids and their wife a better life. Deporting them is separating families. You're sending them to a country they don't know at all. Sending them there is like sending them to their death. What if they don't have money or a place to stay or even speak the language, what are they supposed to do? Our country is deporting people without knowing how life is in Mexico. It is hard. People should go into a migrants life and see how it feels getting separated from their family and sent to country they don't even know. Would you feel it's humane if you had to live an immigrant life? You would see and experience the fear of …show more content…

“The jobs that illegal immigrants have are generally the ones that other members of the community do not want or are unwilling to do. This means that the increased amount of workers won’t damage the current workforce or economy.” (Lombardo) Many of the jobs that immigrants have are mostly the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. They’re all low skill jobs like working in fields, dishwashers, etc. They’re mostly low paying labor jobs. It would affect many people like farmers because immigrants are mostly the ones that do the hard work like picking the fruits and vegetables. If immigrants leave that would mean that farm production would go down and many farmers could lose their farms. There are many reasons why they should stay. The United States will suffer the loss of many immigrants working in jobs most of the community wouldn't want to do. This information shows that the United States needs to have immigrants to have a good economy. Many immigrants contribute to our country to make it the best country in the world by working hard labor jobs and paying taxes and doing jobs that our community members might not want to do. If immigrants start getting deported the price of goods made by immigrants would go up because immigrants won't be there to work those hard jobs at lower wages. Farms would close down. Immigrants are important to our economy and

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