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 mu

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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.

The argument states that illegal immigrants affect the autonomy, the economy and the national identity of a country. It says that because these illegal immigrants possess a threat, they must be returned to their country of origin. However, the passage fails to discuss the measure of autonomy and makes unstated assumptions about the effect on the economy. Also, the conclusion made by the argument is too strong and is not supported by the points made in the passage.

First, the argument states that autonomy of any country is dependent on the strength of its borders; however, it is a generalization which might not be true for every country. The autonomy of a country can be defined using various parameters - the amount of imports, number of military deals and strength of the borders. While some countries may consider the strength of their borders as an important factor in determining their autonomy, it would be wrong to assume that every country thinks so. For example, European countries do not consider strengthening their boundaries to be an important issue - a person can travel between countries via a direct road without having to pass through any tough immigration checks. However, this does not necessarily mean that these countries are not autonomous. Thus, the author wrongly makes generalized assumptions about the relation between the strength of the boundary and the autonomy of the country.

Second, the argument assumes that having an unchecked number of illegal immigrants endangers its economy. Here, it is assumed that the country has population which is unemployed. If there is little or no unemployment in the country, illegal immigrants might help in increasing the production and contribute to a growth in the economy. These workers may be ready to work at the minimum wage rate which were rejected by the locals and cause an increase in the work done.

Finally, the conclusion is too strong and does not have enough supporting arguments from the passage. Even if illegal immigrants adversely affect a country in in terms of economy and national identity, there is no backing to the conclusion that every effort must be taken to return them to their respective countries. In fact, the process of searching for illegal immigrants and making arrangements for their return might be so time-consuming and expensive that this effect on the economy would be more than the damage done due to the presence of illegal immigrants.

Thus, the argument is rife with assumptions about the assessment of the strength of the boundaries, illegal immigrants' effect on the economy; it also presents a conclusion which is does not have backing from points made in the argument. Hence, as a whole, the author's claims fall apart and do not make a convincing argument.

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Average: 7.5 (5 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'in fact']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.236 0.25644967241 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.154 0.15541462614 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.072 0.0836205057962 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.054 0.0520304965353 104% => OK
Pronouns: 0.03 0.0272364105082 110% => OK
Prepositions: 0.134 0.125424944231 107% => OK
Participles: 0.042 0.0416121511921 101% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79089610789 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.022 0.026700313972 82% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.148 0.113004496875 131% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.022 0.0255425247493 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.01 0.0127820249294 78% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2795.0 2731.13054187 102% => OK
No of words: 458.0 446.07635468 103% => OK
Chars per words: 6.10262008734 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.397379912664 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.318777292576 0.287650121315 111% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.227074235808 0.208842608468 109% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124454148472 0.135150697306 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79089610789 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 207.018472906 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451965065502 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 50.2700092397 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1052631579 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0767598807 57.7814097925 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.105263158 141.986410481 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1052631579 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.789473684211 0.724660767414 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 55.9829924155 51.9672348444 108% => OK
Elegance: 1.73109243697 1.8405768891 94% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.545240129772 0.441005458295 124% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.141852231699 0.135418324435 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0786217040672 0.0829849096947 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.585115396483 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.17986800772 0.147661913831 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.245851954687 0.193483328276 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13395200833 0.0970749176394 138% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.481494141419 0.42659136922 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0592989280318 0.0774707102158 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.397547398042 0.312017818177 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501186748865 0.0698173142475 72% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.87684729064 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 11.0 5.36822660099 205% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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