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.
The argument appeared in a newspaper editorial and it claims that the autonomy of a country is dependent on the strength of its borders and if the number of illegal immigrants cannot be checked then the country will lose its economy and national identity, due to which these immigrants must be returned to their country of origin. The argument is rife with fallacies and unwarranted assumptions which if proven otherwise are likely to weaken the argument. Here are the three most dubious assumptions which if proven to be false are more likely to weaken the argument.
First of all, it is assumed that the autonomy of a country is only based on the strength of its borders. It might be possible that the autonomy of a country is based on several factors such as the dependence of a country on other nations on a global level, the government in power, the economy of the country, etc. If a country is highly dependent on a foreign country for crude oil, nuclear power plants, etc. then the country's autonomy would be weakened even more since it is not able to keep up with the technological advancements of the world. If the government in power, imposes strict restrictions on the people then, the country would resemble an autocratic nation which would weaken its autonomy even further as the people have no free will. If any of these possibilities are true then it would weaken the argument as the autonomy of a country is being affected more by some other problems which a country is being plagued with rather than the entry of illegal immigrants.
Secondly, it is assumed that illegal immigrants only endanger a country's economy and national identity. It might be possible that they may be fleeing from a dictatorial rule in the hope of starting their life over and are unlikely to threaten the national identity as they themselves will be looking to create an identity of their own. It might be possible that they actually contribute to a country's economy by agreeing to do work at lower rates as compared to the citizens which might give a boost to the economy of the nation. It might be possible that the immigrants are looking to familiarize themselves with the country's culture, festivals, traditions, language, etc. which would suggest that they are looking to be a part of the country and contribute to its growth and development instead of threatening it. If any of these possibilities are true, then they would weaken the argument as they might not be looking to threaten the nation's identity and economy but actually become a part of it and support it.
Thirdly, it is assumed that the number of illegal immigrants entering a country is significant and the border patrol is incapable of stopping any of them from entering the county. It might be possible that a country is surrounded by water on three sides and has only one neighbouring nation which would limit the number of illegal immigrants coming into the nation and would also decrease the chances of the border patrol not being able to stop them. It might be possible that a nation has one of its most fierce and intimidating soldiers manning the border along with some advanced artillery weapons which would be a natural deterrent for illegal immigrants trying to enter the country. If any of these possibilities is true then it would weaken the argument as the number of illegal immigrants who do manage to enter would be insignificant and unlikely to pose any threat to a country's economy and national identity.
In conclusion, I would like to add that the argument as it stands is based on a number of unwarranted assumptions and to evaluate it further, evidence needs to be provided which can substantiate these assumptions.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 638 350
No. of Characters: 3030 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.026 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.701 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 222 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 177 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 117 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 37.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.155 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.882 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.422 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.639 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.215 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 402, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...acies and unwarranted assumptions which if proven otherwise are likely to weaken t...
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Line 1, column 507, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...he three most dubious assumptions which if proven to be false are more likely to w...
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Line 5, column 531, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e a boost to the economy of the nation. It might be possible that the immigrants a...
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Line 5, column 938, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...ey might not be looking to threaten the nations identity and economy but actually becom...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, in conclusion, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 44.0 19.6327345309 224% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.9520958084 208% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 28.8173652695 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 55.5748502994 151% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3075.0 2260.96107784 136% => OK
No of words: 638.0 441.139720559 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8197492163 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02579962599 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7297564628 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.358934169279 0.468620217663 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 986.4 705.55239521 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.4648476774 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.75 119.503703932 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.9 23.324526521 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => 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: 0.447939949188 0.218282227539 205% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171626928779 0.0743258471296 231% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101434745015 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267759291273 0.128457276422 208% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0998570795423 0.0628817314937 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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