18. The Zombie Immigration Fight

The writer of this article, Molly Ball, discusses about the fight over immigration in America. She says that even though the immigration reform is dead and the debate over it is in stalemate, both sides of the argument are still fighting furiously in order to get something accomplished. The author then mentions how President Obama has already set some policies regarding this subject and that he gives in to some demands of the sides in order to keep his policy alive. President Obama also "used executive action to temporarily protect as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation." This was indeed a significant victory for the immigrant-rights advocates. With this policy, people on the other side of the fight took action to try to set restrictions to what he did; however, it was not successful as the Senate would not allow these actions and as Obama would veto it. This policy is not going to be enforced until the end of the month and both sides of the fight are gearing up for a seemingly big battle. The fight is still going to happen and both sides are passionate in achieving what they want to,
Molly Ball was effective in her writing. She did a good job in explaining what she meant with her introduction. She started by stating that the immigration debate was in stalemate, but still both sides were fighting passionately. In other words, the rule has already been established; however, the groups still act and argue as if they could do something to change it. The author was just not very good in giving background information on what happened. Someone that did not know about this subject would have difficulty understanding what she was talking about. The passage as , however, easy flowing and the reading was easy. She transmitted her message in a clear way.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-zombie-immigration-fight/384804/