Read this excerpt from Ruth Wasem’s response to the government establishing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants:
In 1986, for example, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, giving legal status to 2.7 million undocumented immigrants who entered the country prior to 1982.15 The effect? The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States skyrocketed from 3.2 million in 1986 to 10.7 million in 2016.
What rhetorical appeal is visible in this excerpt?
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