The following argument was made in a newspaper editorial:
“The autonomy of any country is based on the strength of its borders; if the number of illegal immigrants entering a country cannot be checked, both its economy and national identity are endangered. Because illegal immigrants pose such threats, every effort must be made to return them to their country of origin.”
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Living in probably the heyday of globalization, it is being increasingly difficult to suggest the existence of an isolated national identity, let alone trying to preserve it. The intercontinental nature of nowadays economy, pop culture, and information all impose a more holistic approach to be adopted while tackling such issues. In this case, the author seems to have based his assumptions on multiple notions, all in contrary to the current global environment.
While, as a rule-of-thumb, the integrity of national borders is admittedly a matter of national security that can threaten the safety of the people, it is wrong to assume that every single illegal immigrant is as ill-intentioned and useless to the country as a first-tier criminal. In fact, several countries around the world have clearly shown that, when applied with a little bit of meritocracy, immigration can be a rich source both for the economy and the culture. That is, for us to claim the threat of illegal immigrants presumes that they cannot be incorporated in the country or even contribute to its development.
Also, the author seems to cast unnecessarily large focus on the immigrants entering the country, thereby implicitly assuming that the cost of implementing strict borderside measures is not greater than the cost of reacting to their presence. In other words, a merely passive approach to border safety can actually turn out to be more expensive than filtering out the immigrants after their entrance and trying to make the best out of their presence, especially as labor forces.
In conclusion, while the issue of illegal immigrants can indeed be a danger if left without any kind of surveillance, it is a wild assumption to consider them as incompatible with the country's economy and culture, nay claiming they can be but brought back home.
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Comments
e-rater score report
One more argument wanted!
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 298 350
No. of Characters: 1501 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.155 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.037 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.97 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.111 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.723 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.661 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 372, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...clearly shown that, when applied with a little bit of meritocracy, immigration can be a ri...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, so, while, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 298.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1711409396 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04876252438 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60067114094 0.468620217663 128% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 50.4226580462 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.222222222 119.503703932 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.1111111111 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 5.70786347227 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239199551279 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920091487428 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616565035913 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13192727725 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768882060111 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.3 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.1 8.32208582834 121% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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