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possibly add more to an already happy life? Immigrating to another country is not a game of <br />poker - people do not leave their homes and everything they're comfo�able with to gain some <br />money that they really don't need. Often, people immigrate because they need to in order to <br />survive. I think this is especially true in the case of illegal immigrants. Sometimes they need to <br />leave because poverty is unbearable, and sometimes oz�.i1 y one person will be able to go, hoping to <br />find at least a small job so to have money to send home to buy food for their children. Some <br />people live in places where it is impossible to leave the hause without putting your life in danger <br />because of war or unrest. And sometimes people live in environments that are terribly unstable <br />and dangerous because of pollution. Wouldn't any one need to leave a place like that? Wouldn't <br />you or I need to leave a place like that? Immigrants are not selfish people who come to America <br />to steal our jobs. In many cases (not all, of course, but many), their just trying to protect <br />themselves, and their loved ones. <br />I do think it's true that illegal immigration is a problem. America is becoming one of the <br />most populated countries in the world, and if we continue getting larger and larger in population, <br />our economy might not be able to keep up. Even now, there are a lot of Americans out of work, <br />and thousands and thousands of people go to bed hungry, even starving every night. The really <br />hard question is - what do we do? <br />It is not an easy thing to decide what to do. Immigrants are people who deserve as much <br />respect as anyone else, and we can't just move them out of the country. Only this year we had a <br />lot of crops fail because the immigrants who raised them were illegal, and they were told they <br />had to leave. Illegal or not, the ��.tih is that immigrants have a lot of influence on the country. If <br />they had to leave, the results would be disastrous. Perhaps the thing to do would be to tighten <br />security on the borders of the country if possible, at least until we find a way to better control <br />