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In the Land of Freedom

Since the arrival of the first European immigrants to North American, the country known today as The United States of America started to be built on immigrant blood. From mass immigration through Ellis Island, New York, in the early 1900s to crossing the border walking the deserts of Texas or Arizona today, the idea of America as the land of freedom, where the sky is the limit, has attracted and continues attracting immigrants around the globe. For many years, to control the unstoppable immigration; which has apparently transformed into a problem, thought the years' different immigration policies and strategies have been used being Secure Communities being one of the most recent. Although Secure Communities has effectively deported dangerous criminals, the program should not be enforced nationwide as a federal law because it breaks apart American families while reducing the cooperation between illegal immigrant communities and local police. After the attacks on September