In the presidential debate, some of the most addressed topics are things that Americans are most affected by today like taxes, welfare, and reproductive rights — all issues that directly affect the regular American citizen. So how exactly have illegal immigrants from Mexico affected your life? “They are taking our jobs,” “They are selling drugs,” and “They are raping our women.” The last time I remembered, even minimum wage jobs require proof of eligibility to work, we are buying drugs from the locals in our town, and boys like Brock Turner are the sickos doing most of the rape crimes. I would like every single American that really is concerned about immigration right now to really think about how have immigrants affected you. Not on what you have seen on TV, or what politicians like Trump say, or what your parents say. Literally, what have they done to change your way of life?
Many of these immigration obsessors don't realize but is it the ignorant American way to bully the weakest around us? Is it easier to put the blame on those who seem the weakest or lowest income? Do we really just want the illegal immigrants gone, or do we find it easier to put our frustrations and failures to blame a different nationality?
Illegal immigrants were not the ones who have brought us into debt or dragged our country into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the only people we have to blame for a lack of jobs, security, and ability to live the “American Dream” are the people controlling our government. Believing that illegal immigrants that are living without rights whatsoever are the ones responsible is preposterous.
