Blog Post 5

The article I'm using is Thoughts on Illegal Immigration. In this article, Jack Kerwick's purpose is to show everyone the seriousness of illegal immigration. However, we counter this problem by doing nothing or by creating illogical solutions. Kerwick uses the government's past decisions related to illegal immigration as a foundation for his argument. For example, during elections for government officials, the people who campaigned may respond to the topic of immigration by giving amnesty to the immigrants, so they could receive more votes for their campaign. Kerwick uses these actions to support his argument that something needs to be done about illegal immigrants by claiming that officials are not helping to solve this but instead are adding fuel to the fire. This is effective because it affects the audience in an emotional method. However, this article isn't as effective as it could potentially be because Kerwick doesn't clearly state why illegal immigration is such a huge problem. Overall, Kerwick is convincing in some areas of the article, but doesn't give all the points to his argument.