Immigration Film

The documentary film that we are watching in class motivated me in many ways.  My mother and I are extremely close; I asked her a few questions about immigration and coming to the United States.  It’s crazy how things worked out, my mother come back and forth from Mexico and the States countless times without documents.  The last time she immigrated and stayed forever was when I was born on September 15, 1990.  My mother stated that my family moved to the United States for my siblings and myself.  They wanted us to have the best future and have a titled job. My parent’s goal for us is not to have to work ourselves as hard as they have to support my siblings and I.  Both of my parents have very tiring jobs my mother is a housekeeper and my father is a mechanic.  My mother said that many people in Mexico think of the States of a place where dreams do come true because in Mexico one can only get far in life if one’s family is wealthy.  This is one of the many reasons why my family came here.

            According to the Pew Research Center, about 11.2 immigrants from Mexico immigrated to the United State in 2008.  However, the film gave us much useful information that made me strive to help immigrant families succeed.   I have learned that we should not judge these humans and kick them out from our country.  These immigrants from all over the world, I feel like they are not harming us, I strongly feel like the ones who are here to make a better living do jobs that we citizens think we are to good for.  In also many of the young ones are here to get educated and that’s a great thing because that means that many of them can go back to Mexico and try to make it a better country.  One can see that many immigrants are here to earn and save a little of American many to take back to Mexico.  The same Pew Research Center also stated that 433,000 immigrants went back home in 2008.  I don’t feel like many of them are affecting our economic, they just come and go.

            If we put ourselves in their position I would want to be accepted, also I would want to receive the most help I could as an immigrant student to succeed in life.  Immigrants have to wake up with a fear every morning hoping that they are not deported from the United States.  Like I have mention earlier in this blog, hopefully once I graduate this year in May I get the opportunity to do this internship in LA working with immigrant families.  The organization that I’m applying for is located in Los Angles and was started by immigrants from EL Salvador.