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They slip into the San Diego rail yard furtively, preferably beneath the protective cover of darkness, jumping fences, eluding guards and dodging 200-ton locomotives in a perilous dash for the most elusive of prizes, a free ride to the north. Every day thousands of Mexicans and Central Americans cross the U.S.- Mexican border carrying little more than dreams of a better life. Why should we blame them? Mexico and other poor countries are …

…immigrants such as Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, and Samuel Slater, many of the technological advantages such as the telephone, medicines, and factories we have today, would not exist. Thanks to immigrants, the United States continues to progress in many areas to make it the most successful nation in the world. It is America’s responsibility to insure that all people seeking freedom and a better life can have a chance to fulfill their dreams.