argumentative essay

Immigration laws have always been a growing concern in our country, whether it’s making more restrictive barriers or enforcing deportation to being open arms to immigrants to be welcomed to the country know of having people from all over the country.  Both sides have justifiable statements on dealing with this matter. Although until someone experiences the outcomes of deportation, it is easy to just want to deport all undocumented immigrants. The person being deported is not the only one that is affected. Some people don’t even seem to make the effort to understand the reasons for someone to leave their own country to come to the united states in the first place. Many even assume that undocumented immigrants are just criminals or bring no benefit to the country. Deportation is not the solution and it shouldn’t be enforced so extremely as it been the past recent years.
Over time the number one reason for deporting undocumented immigrants has been “all are criminals,” and it's understandable to think that. Anytime there are news reports about an undocumented immigrant, it involves someone that has been arrested for some felony they have committed. But this only causes the stereotypes to be created. All the attention is always focused on the immigrants that have done something criminalized and not seeing the bigger picture of everyone else. When the news reports about law enforcement violence everyone starts to assume all cops are violent. One person’s actions should not be the reason to assume the rest are terrible as well.
Deporting undocumented immigrants may seem to be a solution to some people but it can cause so many more problems. One major problem that is who else it affects, there are so many children that these immigrants had while living in the United States. Losing their parents or any family member can cause so much trauma and despair. Not only are they losing one or both of their parents, but it is also their only source of support. So many families are here alone without knowing anybody and only rely on each other. Deportation really does separate and destroys families. And the ones that suffer the most are the children. Even the fear of being deported at some point can bring only fear and terror. In the past few years, there have been hundreds of children that lost their parents and were left alone. It even comes to a point where people have blamed the parents for coming here illegally and now had to dessert their children. However, these outcomes could have been avoided if immigration laws were not so impossible to overcome.
Of course, immigrants would want to go through the process to come across legally, but it is almost impossible. For starters, it takes so long that sometimes the paperwork gets lost or is behind so many other applications of people trying to come to the United States. These people become desperate and find an alternative way to come across instead. A lot don’t even want to leave their home country but seem to be the only options sometimes. For some its even a life or death situation, and not because they were criminals. Most of its to have what everyone else came here for, a better life for themselves or families. Many others come because they need a better way to financially support their family back home. No matter the reason, the majority can not wait to possibly get approved to receive legal immigration to the United States.
The deportation of undocumented immigrants is something that impacts me personally. Both my parents came across illegally. And for them, it was to help their families. They still would rather be with their families in their home country because they didn’t want to leave in the first place, but it was their only option to support their loved ones. And because of how difficult it was to receive legal documentation to come to the United States, they had no other option but to take the most dangerous way. So many people that immigrate from Mexico don’t even make it. Yet they still risk everything because they only hope for a better life and a better way to help their families. Growing up with the fear of losing my parents consumed my siblings and me with terror. From the moment our parents left for work, while we were in school, and until they got home, we had that fear terrorizing our mind that we may not see them again and we’d be left alone. After a few years, my mom was fortunate to finally be approved to become a legal permanent resident, but it took years and that’s with multiple applications. From being lost to being forgotten it took my mom years to receive her green card. And many are not as lucky and are constantly in fear and their children deal with the worst outcome of it all.
Immigration is not a problem, deportation and immigration laws can be changed and the number of undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be so high. Children wouldn’t have to fear that one day they will no longer see their parents again. Not all immigrants are even criminals, on the contrary, most follow the laws because they don’t want to risk being deported. It's understandable that the government wants to be aware of the number of immigrants that enter the United States, but the process they have and the way it managed only increases the reason so many come illegally. The solution isn’t deportation, changing immigration laws can do so much more than getting rid of people and destroying a family and their lives.