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Lauren Robbins

ENG1201

Professor Barnes

20 January 2019

Children of Illegal Immigrants

A big topic right now in the American Government is illegal immigrants. I have always

wondered how their children came to the United States and if they lived a normal life. A normal

life would include school. Most children attend school at some point in their life but is everyone

entitled to an education? This is a topic I have been wanting to research because I am interested

in knowing how these children of illegal immigrants live their day to day life. Going to school is

an everyday thing for many children. Do they know they are children of illegal immigrants? Do

you believe they should be entitled to a public education? These are just a few questions I am

excited to dig deeper into and learn more about.

I believe these children do not have the right to a public education because their parents

set them up to face things that no child should face alone. Instead, if their parents would come

into the United States legally, then of course they should be entitled to a public education. But,

not everyone is going to get their way so some people have to enter illegally. This topic almost

gives me a weird feeling because on one hand it is not these children's fault that their parents

decided to do an illegal action. On the other hand, it is our justice system to not let illegal

immigrants into our country. I believe that this topic will give me lots of knowledge about our

government and I will get to learn more about illegal immigrants which I think is a very
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interesting topic. I do not know much about this topic which is why I thought it would be a great

idea to do it for a research paper so I would learn more about it.

I still need to know all of the details to my topic. Right now I just have an argument that I

need to do research on to go more in depth in my paper. I am hoping to learn if public schools

allow illegal immigrants children to attend their school and if so, what schools. I will start out

using INFOHIO because they seem to have really great online resources that will hopefully be

useful for my topic. Two questions I have about my topic are, “Are there any schools in the

United States that let children of illegal immigrants attend their public school” and also “If there

are schools, how do those students live there everyday lives”?