One morning you decide to eat breakfast out for a change. You think about what you want to eat and finally choose to eat at your local McDonalds. You wait in line until it's finally your turn to order your food. The smiling dark-haired man with his deep brown skin color struggles to ask you what you would like to eat. You smile back and give him your order with repeating some words a couple of times. One minute later you receive your food with no mistakes made. Your service was quick, the man was nice, and the right amount of change was given back. You walk away with your food thinking about how nice that man was. The only thought in your head is if this man, this immigrant, is legally allowed to work in the United States? Why would you, would anyone care if he is legally allowed to be here or not? Shouldn't anyone, regardless of where they are from, be allowed here in the United States? The United States is supposed to be the land of the free, the land where all nationalitie!

s come together. Why would the United States now try

Work and Living Conditions of Home Country

Housing in the south is somewhat unbearable. In a small town in Mexico "smiles should not come easily in this place called "Murua."" (Lacey 21) "The families gather in

What you do have to think hard about is; why are there so many immigrants pouring across the border to the United States? Why are there numerous amounts of men and women leaving their children and families? Why are they taking a big risk to come here to the United States, the land of Lady Liberty?

tiny courtyards delineated by rusty barbed wire and corrugated steel, and in minuscule rooms usually formed - walls and roof - from panels of laminated cardboard and delaminating plywood." (Lacey, 21) How can any person be able to survive in a place like that? It is so inhumane for people to have to live in a cardboard type house. The truth is we have no idea what it is really like. We may hear about it or read about it, but we really don't know what it is really like to be in that kind of situation.

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