Immigration’s two-sided border
Interning for a Los Angeles newspaper in the first six weeks of summer, I sought stories relevant to the communities I covered. Some of these articles inevitably related to immigration. Immigration is a complex issue, and I began my work at the newspaper with only a basic understanding of it. But reporting in Los Angeles and working in Latin America throughout the remainder of my summer gave me a stronger foundation for understanding the intricacies of the topic.
In Los Angeles, I spent time with immigrants from Central and South America who described the difficulty of crossing the...
We must control the borders.. We must have I.D.'s and must speak the same language. We do not want to divide this country up into different cultures like Europe has.