The research presented here examines the history, the pros and cons, and the future of maquiladoras along the United States and Mexico border. If you have ever had the opportunity to travel across the border it only takes a moment to see the maquiladoras flourishing in the Mexican border towns. Having had the opportunity on several occasions to take high school students on mission’s trips to work in orphanages in these border towns makes this subject of special interest to me.…
Author Amanda Rose has taken it upon herself to bring to light the horrific experiences of modern day immigrant’s flight to freedom through the Sonoran Desert. In addition to addressing the immigrant’s plight, she calls into question the immigration process or lack thereof, the United States legislative broken immigration policy, religious leaders and their roles, US Border Patrol and US citizens. Her intent is to open up a dialogue on US immigration policies and educate the American public on the devastating consequences of a hapless built dividing wall between two countries which are felt not only by the immigrants but by the people that live in and around the border. Rose illustrates the conflicts that everyday Americans citizens living on the border face in trying to help and solve border issues with their personal solutions. Do they work? Are they…
Thousands to million people get deported yearly. Families here in the United States are afraid everyday; they enjoy every second with their families because they don’t know when it’ll be the last time they see each other. Their families get broken, seperated, and worried. In Aura Bogado’s article, “Jackie Rayos-Garcia Tells About the Deportation of Her Mother, Guadalupe García de Rayos,” she explains the process of deportation in the United States; such as experiences like getting isolated, getting treated like slaves, and deportation. The struggle and suffering of people losing their family members to the government or leaving them here in the United States is being shown.…
According to Erik Gomez, the issue of immigration is complicated due to the fact that America was built on immigrants. Nevertheless, Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of letting people in because of the fear of losing their way of life. In making this comment, Mr. Gomez urges us to be free from bias, change the way of viewing immigration and start to embrace the immigrants who are already in the country, such as marginal groups and ethnical minorities. In other words, Ben Huh, an immigrant from South Korea, believes that politicians do not give an opportunity to people to decide what immigrants should be let in. On the other hand, the reducing of immigration rate is needed to preserve cultural identity.…
For a motherless child of 16, to legitimize the stereotype that is the life of an immigrant is more than heartbreaking. For his childhood life to be spent scrounging for every cent is difficult to read, let alone deeply understand and analyze. We see just how desperate these families can get when we read about the children's school…
In 2008, about 8,000 were apprehended at the border; last year there were nearly 24,500, mostly coming from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.” The numbers immigration crossing the border are still high but not as high when Nazario when she published the book “Enrique’s Journey.” In a book review a the writer says “For example, Nazario reports that in 2001, an estimated 48,000 children from Central America and Mexico entered the U.S. without their parents and without legal authorization” (p. 265). This shows the rate of how…
border is filled with violence and society should be aware of all the danger. This story reveals Troncoso’s experience of the insecurity and danger along the border. The drug violence has bloodstained money and power against the civilians living along the border. We can see that the violence along the border can even affect distant families that live in New York such as Troncoso’s not just the population living in the border. Troncoso, just as many other Mexican American families have felt the loss of their Mexican culture due to the insecurities across the border without being able to express their authentic Mexican culture to their future generations. The essential idea of freedom in a place filled with danger is unexplainable for the civilians living so close to Mexico and U.S. without being able to connect their cultures leaving behind their memories. Hope is the only word that keeps them alive in this world filled with corruption along the U.S. and Mexican…
This video displays how, because of their social location (such as their race-ethnicity, their level or lack of education, the kind of work they do, and the amount of little income that their family makes), the children of migrant families come to a, unfortunate, conclusion that whatever dreams or goals that they might have are impossible to bring to fruition. In fact, when asked what dreams are, 12-year old, Zulema Lopez replied that she doesn’t have time for dreams. At the beginning of the documentary, 14-year old, Perla Sanchez…
In the book Immigrant kids , The author tells us that immigrants had a very difficult time making a living. When they came over to America, many were lacking the education and skills, so they had to acquire the lowest paying jobs. If you worked twelve, or even fourteen hours a day, you still wouldn’t have enough money to support your family, so everyone had to help. Even the children in these families had to work. These children were around eight to ten years old, and you would mostly find these children working in factories, warehouses, stores, and laundromats.…
What are the differences between children living near borders in the U.S. and in Mexico? How do these children define their situations through allowing influences of the U.S. Mexican border to shape their social imaginaries? As a product of immigrant parents, and as a person who has experienced these spaces of social influence of borders, identity confusion, feelings of belonging, illegality of family. I question traditional representations and perceptions of the border. In what ways are borders settings changing children’s perception of their surroundings and understanding of the…
Many people feel it’s not fair that these "illegals" are receiving federal and state benefits that they don't deserve. When this child is born, the child automatically receives many benefits if he/she is an anchor baby. Their parent is illegal and cannot work and so they apply for food stamps and many other governmental programs. These anchor babies are a burden on schools, hospitals, taxpayers, and so on. "If there's abuse in the system where , pregnant women are coming in to have babies simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement," Said President Bush "That's [the] legitimate side of this. Better enforcement so that you don't have these, you know, 'anchor babies,' as they're described, coming into the country."…
Each year Latinos make the big journey to the United States. They usually settle for the first low paying jobs, which are offered to them resulting in not moving up the corporate ladder. This consequently results in a pattern of never seeking mobility. The second generations that are born here, either follow their parent’s footsteps or seek for better opportunities through education in order to get their families out of the poverty. Most Latino families today, face the burden about money being the strongest economical issue. The children take account of all the hardships their parents face and are forced to contribute to the families economic crisis. It is hard for the children to move forward since they feel the pressure to give back to their families and decide to work straight after high school, instead of pursuing a career. Since the parents are worried about keeping food on the table; instead of their children’s education the children do not realize how important education is and end up dropping out. All the free time that they have in their hands leads them into joining gangs, doing drugs or having a baby at a young age.…
U.S. born children struggle to survive after their parent(s) are deported. Because of the recent intensification of immigration enforcement in America, the children have been put at risk of being separated from their parent(s), economic hardships, and psychological trauma. The children of undocumented immigrants are just as vulnerable to the immigration enforcement. When a parent who is the provider of the household gets deported, the entire family undergoes a traumatic shift, because they are left to struggle through economic hardships, and are impacted emotionally. A study released by the Center for American Progress…
Children are vulnerable to health threats because they are smaller and their bodies have a harder time fighting off disease. Immigrant children are more susceptible to disease or illness because many immigrant children received low health care and nutriment. Immigrants often were impoverish so the parents of immigrant children could not afford quality health care. Food was also a struggle for many new immigrants therefore immigrant children were malnourished. The lack of food and health care made immigrant children more likely to catch a disease in their often substandard living environment. New York City schools tried to address these dangers by screening for disease at school implementing health standards for the faculty and students, and…
The day started off as any normal day. My mother woke me up and said “we must go.” Her voice sounded very urgent for what I thought was just a trip to the grocery store. My mom laid my outfit on my bed and packed by book bag; that’s when I figured out that I was starting school. I wasn’t entirely oblivious to the fact that I was going to familiarize myself with a completely different environment, but I just thought I had a little more time to prepare. Well, it turns out that I was wrong. You see, I wasn’t your average pre-schooler who was nervous about making friends. I was the immigrant child who had never spoken a word of English.…