by author a Imagine waking up one morning, you look outside at your garden, it is amazing since you have a landscaping company, just like you have done very morning for 30 years. You walk out into the living room. Your 2 children and your wife are eating breakfast. Well that is it. Today you are being taken from that life. You are being deported after your family risked everything for you when you were 10. This is what happened to Jorge Garcia, father of 2. This man was protected by the Obama Administration many years ago but now he is too old and it can no longer protect him. This is a constant problem that our political leader can not seem to agree on. The idea of drawing a line on who can stay and who must leave is horrifying. Bad people do good things for bad reasons and good people do bad things for good reasons, not to mention how some immigrants have done more amazing, positive-impacting, and helpful things than most Americans. So if there is no line to draw, we are left to judge each individual person, and every decision they have ever made. Every action they have ever done. Demanding explanations for things where we can not say we are so innocent ourselves, and we do not have an explanation for. A man like Jorge Garcia has done no bad. He has built a life for himself, without the government’s help. According to CNS news, 49% of Americans and 82 million American households depend on benefits from the government, benefits that immigrants do not have. Yet they manage to make lives for themselves. What does this say about our country? There is no easy solution for this problem. Another idea is using all this money to better countries like Mexico and Syria. If these people did not have a reason to flee, why should they? Although this has no imidiate payoff, it will better the world in ways we can not imagine. Want to see a difference? Make a difference. How can I make a difference?Attend a rally in your area or a peaceful protest supporting the cause. To keep people like Jorge Garcia in this country. SourcesHawkins, Derek. “A Michigan Father, Too Old for DACA, Is Deported after Three Decades in the U.S.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 16 Jan. 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/16/too-old-for-daca-a-michigan-father-is-deported-after-three-decades-in-the-u-s/.
Jeffery, Terrence P. “Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov't Benefits; 82M in Households on Medicaid.” CNS News, 23 Oct. 2013, www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-49-americans-get-gov-t-benefits-82m-households-medicaid.
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