Toulmin Argument Analysis

The Toulmin method is an analysis that goes very in depth in an argument. It breaks the argument in parts and when read, it shows how effective the argument is all together. The passage goes over how the United States is facing a problem with illegal immigrants and the United States wants to get rid of them. The authors go over the possible way of overcoming that obstacle by providing clear cut facts and in depth analysis. This overall was a very effective argument due to the author using the Toulmin method.
The authors claim in this passage was to not build walls to keep out immigrants, but to raise the wages on jobs. The authors believe that if all the low wage jobs were to be removed, then that would lead to the immigrants losing jobs. Since …show more content…
Jobs that give health benefits and a reasonable wage will be taken without a doubt. Americans want jobs that give them more than money, on the other hand, illegal immigrants just want to make money and they do not careless of how bad the work is. The evidence that the author implemented was credible, accurate, and sufficient. The authors gave statistics of how there is “roughly 150 million people currently in the workforce” highlighting how many people could be illegal immigrants out of that number, the amount of minimum wage, as well as shows that the minimum wage “hasn’t been raised since 1997” which leads to why the United States has such a high number of illegal immigrants (Dukakis & Mitchell, 2006). …show more content…
The government wanted to build a wall between the border to keep out the illegal immigrants. This method would waste an abundant amount of money and “illegal immigrants will get around them one way or another” which defeats the purpose of the wall (Dukakis & Mitchell, 2006). The wall method would take several years to make and in the end, it will not even guarantee that the illegal immigrants will stay out, leading to a waste of time and money. The authors believe that reducing “the abundance of extremely low-paying jobs” would kick out the immigrants because those types of jobs fuel illegal immigrants that come to the United States who are looking for a job (Dukakis & Mitchell, 2006). The authors presented the effect it could have negatively to the business by saying “its possible some low-end jobs may be lost” but, it can increase the chance of not having future illegal immigrants come into the United States (Dukakis & Mitchell, 2006). The Authors went into what the raising of the minimum wage can do to the problem of the amount of illegal immigrants that are in the United States. This way of using counterarguments helps elevate the quality of the argument as well as gives the authors a way sounding they are right about the

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