Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Author of Enrique’s Journey talks about struggles of immigration

This article speaks about a book called “Enriques journey“. In which a young man explicitly tells his story of the things he lived while trying to come to America, to find his mother. Despite this, not only he went through this journey, but Nazarrio the author of the book took the journey as well, she re encounters here experience and tells us how these people go through, rape, robbery , deportation and even death, this experience let her psychologically paranoid she quotes “When I returned the first time, I had this nightmare that there were scavengers on top of the train trying to rape me, and I had to go into therapy to be able to get rid of that fear…I felt tense and filthy and a fear of being robbed or raped or beaten a lot of days on this train.” As well how the increase on children illegal immigration has arose form 48, 000 since she started to write her book till now this number has doubled to about 100.000 kids come alone each year. This book will be used in the freshman reading program to create awareness of this global issue and to bring new students together.
My outlook in regards this reading comes into a unique and mind changing perspective, I use to believe, that these people didn’t deserve the right to come to this country and obtain their legal status, if they cross the border illegally, which I believe was fair enough, after reading this short but rich of details article made me believe that the experiences, dangers and even psychological changes that these people encounter , specially kids, should be granted at least a temporary visa until they are stable enough to go back to their country, or until they find a family member. I consider that some of this “Judgmental Americans”, put them selves in these human beings shoes and realize that poverty, lack governmental support, and many other things are the reasons why these people come here, to get a better future, to work, and to provide for their family member.

What part of legal migration dont you understand?

illegal immigration let's talk about it

In this article Sofi Seck, argues that, since the media, American citizens, authors, and many other source of information or communication, give negative feed back on the whole matter of illegal immigration, she will not discuss them, instead she wants to speak about the things that can be done to stop this whole “human trafficking“. Seck suggest that punishing people who tend to hire illegal immigrants, by sending them to jail, closing their business, or even giving them a fine, this solution she believes would make them less likely to get hire , and less likely for them to come to America, due to the lack of jobs, which is indeed the primary reason why they come here. She also argues that instead of building a fence, or this huge wall that’s going to cost thousands and thousands of dollars and that is disgusting a degrading, that tends to perceive these people as if they were animals, and still wont prevent desperate people to climb it , when there is a job marketing waiting for them on the other side. The government itself is crucial in this issue, if there is more governmental support, in these countries, less immigrants would be force to come here to seek a better future. These people don’t come here to take American citizens job, they come here because they are victim of the circumstances they go through due to their government and they economical crisis. These people are victims of racial abuse, to people who whom they have never done any wrong, and have live in horrible conditions just to provide for their families.
In my opinion, Just as Seck, said and argues, instead of us arguing the positive and the negative sides of the illegal immigrants, we need to stop pointing fingers, and instead look for a solution to the problems. Americas mentally in the whole job stealing has to change because we clearly know that the jobs done by this illegal immigrants a legal person would never due, specially at the wages they getting are paid. The whole security measure are not working either which shows that out government is not doing their jobs, and all they are doing is wasting , money and time. We know that these people wont stop coming illegally to America unless, problems coming from their own country are not fix first, specially economic problems.

The purpose of this blog

The purpose of this blog is to enlight my readers and inviting them into this world of hardship and invite them into this world of hardship and to bring notice of this social issue. through this blog i would like to demonstrate the other side of the story. the journeys encountered, and obstacles such as robbery rape and even death.
Through this blog i would also like to bring compassion and comprehension from my readers perspective. Over all find some solution to help prevent these people from migrating to the United States.
Hopefully this blog would change peoples mind on illegal immigrants. Instead of treating them like outsiders, animals or less then Americans. they would begin to get treated with respect and rights like everyone else.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009

anlysis response to Illegal Immigration "Lets talk about it" Sofi Seck

There is something that Seck points out that deserves more attention: the anti-immigrants wall; 20 years after Berlin, the other walls of shame remain. A few days ago, we were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. This wall had separated West Berlin and East Berlin. However, the united States have decided to build a wall in order to limit the number of immigrants. Are these walls there to protect or to separate? Like Seck I believe this “tortilla border” is not a solution. Not to mention that this wall will harm the bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico.
I believe that we must keep in mind that they run away from their countries for a good reason, poverty and wars for example. Therefore, developed countries should work in partnership with developing countries to solve the problem by organizing meetings; for instance they should invest in these developing countries to help develop new forms of jobs and/or create more training programs for people with no or low qualifications. If we continue identifying immigration as a problem rather than as a potential resource we will never find a solution
In conclusion it is clear immigrants come to the United States illegally because of the poor conditions and lack of job opportunities in their own countries. Enforcing more of a punishment on employers that hire illegal immigrants rather than those hired would probably be more beneficial to lowering the number of people who enter the country illegally. After all, it is not the illegal's fault for being offered a job; the employer really is the one at fault. You also mention that the wall built on the Mexico-U.S. border is expensive and degrading which I also find is true. Not only has the wall been extremely expensive since it's been made but it will continue to cost us. The wall really is not preventing illegal immigration; it is only making it more dangerous for the masses that do attempt it. There needs to be a lot more governmental support, and more so in the countries from which majority of the illegal immigrants are coming from. If the U.S. wants to tackle the issue of illegal immigration and all of the negative factors that come with it, we need to invest in countries like Mexico instead of wasting several millions on a wall that serves as no other purpose than killing non-U.S. citizen

Response to "we are not criminals...."

Throughout the semester I have done research, read article seen videos and dealt with many different branches of illegal immigration. By far the picture that has most impact me is “we are not criminals, we are hard workers“. In which shows a child holding a poster with this logo. Trying to pursue people specially the American government for help and have some kind of compassion. Children don’t ask for their misunfortions, nor to come to a world full of hate and prejudice. These kids need help, need an opportunity. Need a chance to actually be kids, play, attend to school and be treated with love and respect. They need parents who work and provide them with a better future. These kids should only worry about being kids, not on what the future holds for them the day of tomorrow. So lets start making a change, together as a nation we can come together and provide aid to these people, through activisms, organizations , blogs pro immigration, videos etc.

We are not criminals we are hard workers