A professor of economics at the Agnes Scott college in Atlanta and a prolific author on immigration and economics, Madeline Zavodny, in her renowned editorial piece, Unauthorized immigrants are on the rise and this is good news, trivializes the concern of the rise in number of unauthorized immigrants. Zavodny’s purpose in this text is to make the people and government officials aware of the importance of immigrants in improving the economy of the country if they are allowed to work here and are given some flexibility. She adopts a more logical and ethical tone is order to appeal to similar logical thinking in her more mature adult readers. Zavodny’s editorial piece was published on the official website of Forbes, an Internet based media company
