Underprivileged: Film Analysis

I had the privilege of attending the Policy Symposium workshop on Thursday at Ramapo College. They touched on immigration and a lot of what they mentioned was found in the text book Two things that both the text book and Symposium talked about was that when Immigrants get deported back to their country, they are at risk of getting raped. Women have a higher risk of getting raped, but men also sometimes gets raped as well. Another thing that they both mentioned was if immigrant children are deported, they often go to a country that is unfamiliar territory because they have little knowledge. This was also mentioned in the movie "Underprivileged" as the main character, Thomas was deported after not being able to produce an social security number for his university.
Families are ripped a part after their families worked hard to have a better life. Let's take a look at the current events right now with immigrants being deported back to their countries. Hard work is going unnoticed because they are not "American." But what is "American" exactly? You see I was always was under the assumption that America was the land of the free. Where, we work hard for every opportunity that is given to us. That we have the right to freedom of speech, to practice whatever faith it is that we want. To be anything that we want to be. So why can't an immigrant have those dreams and