Jimmy Santiago Baca Immigration

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So then, why doesn’t Americans want immigrants to come to their country, when they were immigrants once? Are Americans becoming selfish? Is America no longer “the best” country to go to? There are lots of questions that can be debatable. However, you have probably heard that the immigrants coming to the United States are destroying their country by taking away their jobs, not paying taxes, draining our economy and so on. This is not true, the truth is that immigrants are actually helping the America, rather than destroying it. A very popular American poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, who learned to read and write in a security prison when he was just an age of 13, turned his life around. During his lifetime, he wrote a very interesting poem, “So