Hector Hernandez

Sue Briggs
English 2010 - 10:00 AM
March/6/2016
REVIEW:
Immigration Reform

Paul Thornton, with his newspaper article of Immigration Reform: Politics, policy and
overpopulation, is being the most realistic as he can, because he gathers the right information
about the topic and therefore breaks the article apart, where you can really tell where it is being
dedicated to the audience, where it is being focused specifically on the issue, or where is he
trying to use some prove in order to strength his arguments and make it more interesting to read.
In some way the author was very accurate, he was clear when it came the part for him to give an
argument because he was using resources and going back to events in real life (for example in
the congress), and also, in some parts of the article, the author was trying to pursue the reader by
the citation of several things, where one of them that was very helpful for me to get a better
understanding of it was when he quoted: Besides, as Obama noted, Most of us used to be
them, where the author was trying to imply on how impacting this issue of the immigration
reform is, because it is a topic/issue, which many people around the world and specifically

Mexicans are facing. The author really did a good job on dividing small subjects from the main
topic, where for each one of them he did the citation of the right information, which strengthen
the readers view of point. I dont really think there are many Weaknesses from the article,
because each paragraph and subject had their reason to be there and to be discussed. The
evidence was very adequate, very useful at all to help the reader get a better perspective of what
was being talked about. The authors writing was very clear, comprehensive and informed
throughout the article, he really knew what the topic was about and he was focusing the right
central concepts. Paul Thornton which is the author of this article is one of Los Angeles Times
letter editors, which is a very prestige newspaper and considered itself as The largest
metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 1.5 million and 2.6
million on Sundays. Paul has been working for the newspaper for almost 11 years, he is also a
Web producer, researcher and blogger; raised in California and graduate of UC Berkeley. So
when it comes to knowing from what source is the article from, we can be satisfied and secured
about its validity and strengthen. When it comes to verifying if the piece meets the common
expectations, it really does because the author does talk about the issue and how it is being
observed nowadays. I really like the fact on how the editor in the first paragraph states: readers
have sent us more than two dozen letters on the topic, implying how controverting the topic of
immigration reform is, because he is pointing out important facts to make the reader understand
that this issue is really important for many people here in the United States. I really like the way
how the editor uses as well quotations from other people, such as John T. Chiu, where he
summarizes the fact on how the amnesty of 1986 occurred and how such things as that has been
an influence for today, where illegal immigrants think that there can soon come another time
similar to that one, and it is very interesting and good to notice on how the writer comes up with

enough proof in order to make his article more valuable and clearer to understand, because that
way, it makes the reader get a more better understanding of what the main topic is about and
what are the other small subjects of it. One of the main aspects that I noticed in the article was on
how the writer kept gathering more and more argumentations and quotation from several people,
where the majority of the were trying to explain the advantages on approving the immigration
reform, but at the same time they were highlighting the disadvantages on it, so that makes it even
more interesting to read for the reader, because they dont only hear the good part of the issue,
or the solutions, but also the bad consequences that those implementations could have, so the
author did a good job on trying to contradict the sequence and order of the article but at the same
time to let the readers know that he was thinking on the everything besides only the results and
solution.

At the end, in my personal opinion, I think that the writer should have done a better job at
summarizing or giving his own opinion about the topic as he did on the introduction. But overall,
I think that the article is well written, that the weaknesses on it were really few and the strengths
were well implemented on It in order to make the central concepts clearly defined. The writer
itself has knowledge of the subject and thats what I think it really matters, because besides of all
of your researches, you should really place yourself into the issue and in some way relate to it,

notice on which parts you can give an opinion of it or even better, come up with another subject
to put into the article and make it even more interesting and enrich it.
SOURCE: Thornton, Paul, www.latimes.com , Immigration Reform: Politics, policy and
overpopulation,

January

29,

2013,

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http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/29/news/la-ol-