The Other Side Of Immigration Essay

Does America really have an immigration problem? Roy Germano gave a speech at Bloomsburg University, and showed his film, “The Other Side of Immigration”. While I consider myself a republican even though I can’t vote, his excellent informative lecture gave me new thoughts about immigration. It’s amazing to me that he went out of his way to do a documentary, because he felt so passionate about a particular subject. While yes, I do believe we have a problem in America with illegal immigration, he definitely shined light to the other side of immigration we don’t see very often.
I think we can all agree that our views on immigration are heavily based off of the views of different political parties. I think this isn’t ideal because it forms very biased opinions. For example, the redneck who believes that all illegal immigrants are criminals, and the liberal who believes that all illegal immigrants are innocent. Bloomsburg University did a great job by bringing in someone other than a politician to show the truth on immigration itself. Germano told of a story on what motivated him to do the documentary. While working in a restaurant, he
I learned so many new factual (which is important to note), real life situations that the good illegal immigrants have to face. These illegal immigrants who come to America, leave their own families for years at a time just so their kids, and wives can survive (Germano, 2009). Jobs are scarce in Mexico, so they sometimes don’t have any other choice but to come to America (Germano, 2009). The road to America isn’t easy either. Immigrants have to spend two to three grand to drug cartels just to get smuggled into America, and most have to travel through a desert for days just to get to where they need to be (Germano, 2009). It’s sad this is a reality for people simply trying to survive in the