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The psychological impact of immigration to families.

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Washington Post's " How a 1965 immigration reform created illegal immigration":
"one unintended consequence of the well-intentioned 1965 immigration reform was an unprecedented rise in illegal migration. This in turn set in motion a cycle of border enforcement that produced more, rather than fewer, undocumented migrants living north of the border"(3).

"Congress created a new unbiased system that would allocate visas equally across countries with an annual limit of 20,000 visas per country" (4).

"Although little had changed in practical terms in the years after 1965 — the same migrants were leaving the same communities to go to the same employers in the same U.S. states in about the same numbers — now the migrants were “illegal” and hence by definition “lawbreakers” and “criminals” " (9).

"In public discourse, the “illegal invasion” became linked to the perceived national security of the day: communist infiltration in the 1980s, drugs in the 1990s, al-Qaeda in the 2000s and even Ebola this decade. In the American imagination, the Mexico-U.S. border came to be seen symbolically as the defensive line separating America from a hostile world" (10).
"From 1980 to 2010, the Border Patrol budget rose 16 times, despite the fact that the number of attempted undocumented entries was not itself rising" (11).

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Many Mexicans seeking to immigrate are left with no choice but to go to shady people to help them cross illegally, due to how difficult the legal and proper way of immigrating is. Mexicans are not against legal immigration. If legal immigration were made easier, there would be no need to immigrate illegally.

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What approaches do Mexicans wishing to immigrate to the US take? Sadly, they often have to cross illegally through coyotes, or ( ), because the legal path of immigration is far too cumbersome and filled with frivolous bureaucratic obstacles. (claim i need evidence for -->) Legal immigration is purposely made to be confusing and time consuming to deter new arrivals.

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Why don't Mexican immigrants just immigrate legally? Why do they have to cross illegally?

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America needs to completely reshape its immigration policy/ border control) to allow easier, more streamlined routes for legal immigration.

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America need to help Mexican immigrants and their children succeed academically by (allowing them similar opportunity to american-born citizens / ...?)

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The current system of immigration policy.  The militarized southern border that dehumanizes any immigrants attempting to cross, and criminalizes anyone who is undocumented .

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Grande, Reyna. A Dream Called Home.

Massey, Douglass S. "How a 1965 Immigration Reform Created Illegal Immigration".

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Mexican immigrants are taking the jobs that Americans don't want such as farm work, food packaging, landscaping, etc. These are fields of work that Americans are not interested in as they want to work in skilled fields that often require years of higher education.

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Mexican Immigrants are taking jobs away from American citizens.

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Mexican Immigrants often work in unskilled field that don't require college/high school education, making undesirable fields of work have employees.

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America should help Mexican immigrants integrate into society rather criminalizing them, because they play a critical role in (food production/manufacturing?), less discrimination if immigrants are more accepted and taught (English/ ...) , and to reduce the human injustices that are (currently happening, began [decades?{find evidence on date}] ago and are still happening to this day).