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The event was during civil rights day on specific occasion of martin Luther king junior day. A pro immigration movement wanted to use this day to address the plight of immigrants in America. This came at the height of anti immigration movements in America who believed that immigrants are the sole cause of social ills experienced in America. Extremists had been on the verge of frustrating efforts to accord immigrants’ respect they deserve as equal human beings. There was a pro migration rights movement which was there to prove that there is no illegal human being whether he or she has crossed borders through smuggling and human trafficking or through what are said to be legitimate means. The heated topic is whether immigrants have equal rights of employment, representation in court and protection of government like any other citizen in America. Should immigrants have the same right as citizens? Do they deserve the harsh treatment like those of slaves of unjustified deportation and harassment from the general public? It was a high political event which was poised to persuade more people to join their bad wagon of championing for the rights of immigrants in America against the frustrations made by the extremist and anti immigration movements who are said to be powerful people.

According to Powell (2006), immigrants from other world were not doing well in business because of historical structure restrictions embodied in immigration related laws, policies and other social restraints. In the mid 19th century Chinese born Americans were seen as intellectually inferior, they were also considered incapable of participating in western type democratic social life. Thus the laws of the day banned them from educational and business opportunities and prevented them from being integrated into mainstream society. Until 1970s these people had a disadvantage due to the nature of oppression they were accorded by the American authorities. They were oppressed. But until the voice by martin Luther king junior who opened door for negotiation it was a tough going for the immigrants. They were later incorporated in the mainstream economy of business opportunities and education. Mostly this benefited the Asians and Chinese people who were the subject alongside Africa Americans. This was not meant to be the end of struggle because even today after this milestone achievement there was a lot of dynamism in the structure of immigration not only in America but also in Europe. (Powell, 2006)

According to Bascio (1999), today Asians and Chinese are no longer reason of much attention in the immigration feuds. Despite strict immigration laws America is one of the countries which receive flood gate of immigrants from all corners of the world. This is prompted by the ethnic and racial veracity of American population. Since enactment of the law of citizens’ provision that every child born in America is a citizen of America, United States has taken responsibility of many children from citizens of other countries. More so due America been considered as land of opportunity and security many people especially from central and Latin America have fought to grab an opportunity to reside in America. According to Armada as north America enters 21st century, there is little doubt that flow of migrants will continue, but there questions about the magnitude of  future migration flow. More than 12million immigrants are in America most of whom are from Mexico. Immigration make up 12% of the U.S population, and current rates of immigration add just over 1 million immigrants yearly to an existing base of about 37 million. The fact that immigrants pay more money to the federal government than the benefits they get raises eye brows (Bascio, 1999).

According to Ramarkrishan (2005), there is social, political and economical intolerance to the immigrants in Americas.  Elites and extremist who are anti immigrants have squarely blamed immigrants as the perpetrators of murder and drugs. This prompted human right organizations to hold persuasive campaigns to ease the situation. The audience was the general public through public lectures and conferences. However this essay would give an evaluation to the event held on martin Luther king junior day in line to championing for the rights of immigrants in America (Ramarkrishan, 2005).

This persuasive debate was be done during a major civil rights day during Martin Luther king junior commemoration day. This awareness was to be done through conferences in different states of America. The pro immigration movements attached them to the martin Luther king junior foundation to persuade more audience to attend. As indicated by McGuire, (1994) media is a major communication channel which can be persuasively used to woo audience. Two months before the event there was extensive advertising through print media and audio visual media where famous figures were used as advertisers there was also advertisement through social network of face book to give the event a wide coverage of audience. The conference was a three day event where many speakers were invited to make speeches on behalf of the immigration movements in order to persuade the publics to generally accept that immigrants are equal human beings with equal rights to life, freedom, health and service from the government. There were slogans like no human being is illegal, immigrants rights are human rights, great land of freedom like America should show the world high tolerance to immigration plight. On the eve of the day selected things like marching were done to prepare people psychologically on the importance of the day. Hand outs were given out with information of what would be expected of the event and the issue at hand during the conferences (McGuire, 1994).

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