Over the past decade more than 2,000 illegal immigrants have died trying to cross the border in the southwestern United States. Many deaths have resulted from dehydration in the desert heat and from freezing to death on cold winter nights. A San Diego-based nonprofit humanitarian organization now leaves blankets, clothes, and water at stations throughout the desert and mountain regions for the immigrants. Should the organization do this? Its members say they are providing simple humanitarian aid, but critics accuse them of encouraging illegal activity.

1. Take a stand on the issue and defend your position.

2. Then identify eachrhetorical deviceyou used.