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One human rights issue that affects people within the United States and one other country such as France or Spain, is the lack of opportunities for immigrants to start a new life and find proper conditions to work and prosper. Immigrants are treated as second-hand people that most of the time do not have absolutly anything to survive. They left their native countries with nothing more than their back pad and risk themselves crossing inhospitable places just to get to America or other first world countries.