Rhetorical Thesis

The article I have chosen is “Thoughts on Illegal Immigration” by Jack Kerwick. In this article Kerwick argues that immigration reform is a political tactic used by politicians to gain the voters and for their personal agenda. He states that there are two main reasons or fallacies provided to us by the Democratic Party to convince us of a total reform. One being that the only option other than amnesty is to do nothing and the second that we can’t afford to do nothing. Kerwick understands that something must be done about illegal immigration and that the American people understand this as well. Kerwick argues that there are of course other alternatives to total amnesty and that this is a fallacy that the liberals feed to us as truth to sway the opinions of voters. His opinion is that the liberal views are far too superficial to actually benefit immigrants or the American citizens and that amnesty is not the only solution to the problem. One problem that I can see with his thesis is that I believe there are people on both sides of politics who do genuinely care about immigration reform. His thesis does somewhat generalize that group of people saying that all of them believe this way. I think there are people in the Democratic Party who do want to help immigrants. I also think that republican candidates can do this same thing. But for the most part I do agree with what he has to say about immigration reform and that we really can’t afford to do nothing.