A Day Without a Mexican”

This characterization gives a bigger meaning to the dangerous journey taken by immigrants to cross these socially constructed borders and brings meaning to immigrants as people, and not just as objects. The film shows the landscape of Honduras, people working in the fields, how children learn in school, soccer playing as a pastime and other visual occurrences that expose the viewer to the daily life of a Honduran citizen. The personification of Yohan being from Honduras, being father of three kids, a husband, a son, and a worker in his community, shows that his identity does not just amount to one negative connotation that is perceived out of ignorance and xenophobic principles. With Yohan as a real-life example, it motivates individuals to see that migrants expose themselves to dangers because of their family and goals. Yohan is not just a number or a name, but a person with a dream and a background—which provides a further representation of immigrants as people. This depiction gives immigrants a contextual background, gives them an identity through their “homeland.”

The documentary uses pathos by examples of real life situations of people who where personally affected by illegal immigration. The documentary follows the life of a woman, Teri March, whose husband, who was a cop, was murdered by an illegal immigrant when her husband pulled him over during a traffic stop. The story is really emotional and really makes you think about the concept of illegal immigrants. After the immigrant, Armando Garcia, shot officer March he then fled to Mexico that way he wouldn’t get caught. They talk to Teri March and as they are interviewing her it is very hard for her to recall the story because of how emotional it is to her. She begins crying and this really begins to hit the audience and makes them want to do

One of the main issues of this film - if not the main issue - is the fact that the government and many people in the

Immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue that faces the US. In his film, Sin Nombre (2009), director Cary Fukunaga aims to juxtaposition the issue of immigration with the issue of gang violence in Mexico, and show the difficulties immigrants face by giving his audience an insider’s perspective into the experience of immigrating to the United States from Honduras. He does this through a variety of characters; most notably Willie and Sayra. Fukunaga did extensive research on life in the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the process of immigrating to America, in order to make his film realistic and authentic. The result is a movie that not only shows immigration in a way that evokes empathy and enforces the humanity of immigrants in the viewer’s mind, but also gives the viewer a look into the realities of being in a gang. Through the use of strong characters, powerful dialogue and vivid imagery, Fukunaga uses pathos to put a human face to the issue of immigration, logos to inform and give his audience context about the issues the film addresses, and ethos to establish his credibility and make the film believable.

The movie, Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna), was a story about a hispanic mother named Rosario and her son named Carlitos. Rosario and Carlitos have been separated since he was five years old. Rosario left Mexico four years ago to look for a better life in Los Angeles. Rosario made the difficult decision to leave her son with her mother while she illegally immigrated to the United States to work, sent money to her mother for Carlitos, and called her son every Sunday at 10:00 A.M. on the payphone every week. Life as an illegal immigrant was hard. Money was very difficult to come by with Rosario's background, so she had to work two different jobs just so that she could put a little bit money aside. She sent money back home to keep her son fed, clothed and educated. At the workplace, she was always discriminated and treated as

In 1931, the California legislature barred any company doing business with the state from hiring “alien” workers on public jobs, forcing the removal of Mexicans from construction work, highway repair, school maintenance, and jobs in government buildings (Sanchez 211). At the same time, officials in Los Angeles

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

Outside the sirens are singing and someone’s parents are taken away from their family because they are not a citizen, they didn’t do anything wrong they just weren’t citizens in the country. Not every immigrant is the same, everyone is different and they all have different opinions. Immigrants are helping out their family like every other family would and they aren’t just the only people who do wrong choices so do others. Some American’s can’t accept them in their country and say immigrants are taking their jobs. Imagine having children born in the country with foreign parents and they have to be deported with their kids waiting to be adopted by “parents with better lives.” Immigrants are like everyone else, they risk themselves but they don’t

The writer, Maribel Garcia Ochoa, begins her piece with making the claim that because of Donald Trump being elected, California shaped this “defensive” attitude. Then Ochoa supported her claim with the evidence of the immigration policy issue. In addition, she believes that, “SB 54 would prevent the use of state and local resources to assist federal deportation efforts.” In fact, SB 54 has been recently amended in Senate on March 6, 2017. Another claim that Ochoa made was that California’s immigration policy was not completely for Asians it was also towards Mexicans. Ochoa used statistics, “Early into the ’30s, over 15 million Americans, about one quarter of all wage earners, were unemployed,” to show that once Mexicans entered California the unemployment rate of whites skyrocketed.

In this movie racism and discrimination is the cause of all kinds of trouble. The members of the school board, whether they knew it or not, looked at the Mexicans with a stereotype in mind. They didn’t take the time to understand Mexican culture or try to make contact with the Mexicans in their town. This exact

Chapter 19 (pgs 315-326) Once California belonged to Mexico and a horde of tattered feverish American poured in. These squatters and farmers soon became the owners and the mexicans could not resist because the immigrant wanted nothing but land. Farming turned into an industry and the farmers did not kown land. The owners no longer farmed the earth, they farmed paper and remembered only how to make make a profit. The descendants of these squatters are the wealthy farmers who defend their land from the displaced families during the dust bowl. They protect their wealth and acreage by paying unfair wages and hiring security guards. They fear the impoverished tenants and migrants, that want a steady job to relishes the power hunger has on these

The reason many people in America today, as well as in the movie are racist is because this is how they were brought up, by the labels they were taught to live by. Past generations were exposed to segregation between ethnic groups, which has greatly carried on to how people look at others today. Up until 1967 it was prohibited for blacks to marry white people in 38 states

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

The video starts with interviews of certain members of the Mexican population that are both in the government and not in the government. They discuss the many reasons why the people choose to go to the United states for work rather than stating within the country itself. One of the key things stated Is, “...the root cause of the problem should be addressed… the lack of opportunities in the country”.

The movie exposes the shabby working and living conditions of the Mexican-American community. It provides some historical background on how Hispanic rights were violated by white industrialists. The land where the mine is located was once owned by members of the local Mexican-American community, however the Zinc Company moved in, took over the property and offered them the "choice" of moving or accepting employment at low wage. Additionally, the workers are enticed to live in management-owned houses and buy at management-owned stores. The homes of the Hispanics are shacks compared to those of their white co-workers with poor sanitation and bad plumbing. The stores sell goods at inflated prices, which put the workers in debt.