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 editorial puts forth a very interesting argument, considering the different faces of the sphere regarding how the autonomy of a country is affected, when considering illegal immigration. But the editorial leaves a lot of gaps, a lot of ambiguity, in it's analysis. I'd like to point out 3 factors that has to be considered while analysing the effects that illegal immigration can have on a country.
Firstly, the editorial doesn't consider the core reason influencing illegal immigrats to migrate to a country in the first place. People can illegally migrate to a nation primarily for two reasons. One, the nation borders along with a country with a devastated economy, such as Bangladesh, or a country which is conflict-stricken, such as Syria. Two, the nations economy is soaring high, due to which people, whose primary objective is to secure their future, would like to migrate to a country with better economy. Now, if their is a country that doesn't meet the both objective stated above, we can safetly consider that the illegal immigration isn't the major issue playing a significant role in the autonomisity of the country.
Secondly, the editorial doesn't consider the finance of the country, compared to the various other needs that the country demands. It might be so, that a third-world country doesn't have the necessary economy to look into the factor of illegal immigration. It's a daunting task, to identify the illegal immigrants of a country. Infrastructures established in various locations of the nation, sensitive-information handling teams, trained task-forces, are few of the many other things required. Is the country capable of supporting these, when compared to the various other needs that it is required to meet? The classic example for this view is the recent controversial CAA bill passed by Indian government in their parliament. It is true, that illegal immigration is present. But, identifying immigrants of such a large scale (as it is bordering few third-world countries), in such a huge country (areawise), which is the 7th-most populated country of the world, where government is not able to give proper education, or health services, where people die due to starvation, this is not a wise decision. Now, even if the government is successful in identifying the immigrants, as put forth by the prompt, they have to be made to return to their country of origin. That in itself is probably a more daunting task than identifying.
Now, considering the third ambiguity, I'd like to expound on the borders that the country of interest shares with, sice it was one of the major point in the prompt. Consider Australia, for example; no one really needs to question that illegal migration is a major issue. Why? because it's an island. It doesn't share it's border with any country. So, the place factor has to be given prior importance.
I'd like to conclude saying that the editorial does highlights a rather very important issue. But the ambiguites needs to be considered, in a case-by-case basis, depending on the country in consideration.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 513 350
No. of Characters: 2499 1500
No. of Different Words: 231 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.759 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.871 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.952 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.52 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.477 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.478 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...s, a lot of ambiguity, in its analysis. Id like to point out 3 factors that has to...
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Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...flict-stricken, such as Syria. Two, the nations economy is soaring high, due to which p...
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Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
... a country with better economy. Now, if their is a country that doesnt meet the both ...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...conomy. Now, if their is a country that doesnt meet the both objective stated above, w...
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Suggestion: isn't
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Suggestion: doesn't
...the country. Secondly, the editorial doesnt consider the finance of the country, co...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...might be so, that a third-world country doesnt have the necessary economy to look into...
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...into the factor of illegal immigration. Its a daunting task, to identify the illega...
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Suggestion: I'd
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Because
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Message: “because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...llegal migration is a major issue. Why? because its an island. It doesnt share its bord...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, look, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, while, as to, for example, such as, it is true, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 55.5748502994 131% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2567.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09325396825 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0495554106 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478174603175 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 805.5 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.1214701983 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.68 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.16 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290563679828 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.082244102743 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043811823291 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158782260383 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404858883828 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 98.500998004 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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