While skimming over the content page in our book I came across a title that struck my interest. The article is called, "Immigration is about us." While studying abroad in Spain my 'mother' told me a little story about Spain's immigration and how some handle it there. Being so close to the African border, Spain receive many illegal immigrants that travel via boat. The journey is usually carried out on a small boat that struggles to make it ashore. The part that most amazed me was this-Spaniards would gather, where the boats come in, and rather than build a border, shoot, and shoo them away, the Spaniards would help pull the boats into safety and welcome the newcomers in. My thoughts were turned to the Mexican border and how different things are here.

 I chose the article "immigration is about us" because not only do I find the topic interesting but Willes does a great job at arguing his point. The author’s purpose for writing is to state that almost everyone agrees that current circumstances of immigration need to be fixed yet no one is doing anything about it.

I believe him to be effective in making his argument for multiple reasons. Willes begins by being pretty general and narrowing down so we can clearly see the point he is trying to make. He illustrates examples of the difficult situation that immigration is but also hits hard that we must do something rather than nothing at all. In the end, he plays into pathos by referring back to our ancestors who immigrated here and even talks about the Mormons immigration to Utah.

We need to pick a stance, as complicated as it may be about immigration. “What we do about immigration will say more about ‘us’ that it will about ‘them’ (Willes, 40).