“Immigration must be stopped. If we have a relaxed immigration policy, everyone is going to move to the U.S. The more people that come here, the more our government will have to provide for them. The more our government doles out, the further in debt our nation will become, and this means the higher our taxes will become! The next thing we will find is that our economy will be in just as poor a condition as the one from which these immigrants came!” This is an example of which of the following fallacies:


Ans: Slippery Slope

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