Graduation Speech: Undocumented Immigrants

Welcome, I am honored, as a young first generation Latina, to be speaking in front of you. Although there are stereotypes toward young Latina woman such as myself, I knew that anything was possible which brings me here today. I am not here to talk about myself but rather the future especially our future. A future where I envision that technology has advanced extremely but fear that our human interaction and compassion will be decreasing.

But since they are immigrants they are not 100% sure they will be able to stay here. It is not ok for Trump to just generalize every immigrant as a criminal or as people who just cause problems. There is a total of 11.2 million of illegal immigrants in the U.S, and of those 11.2 only 177,960 are actual got deported back to their country because of a crime based on last year. Only 177,960 illegal immigrants that caused problems last year and Trump is already trying to send all of the back because according to him all immigrants are dangerous. Immigrants are not dangerous they are very hardworking people who have come to the united states to make a better life and globalize together. It is also not ok for my family to be scared and having to worry at all times. Me being a citizen of the United States it is scary having to be careful of where we go when we are with our full family. It has not been normal for our family since he signed that executive order because we have to be so careful with our family members. My school had to have a whole class period explaining to us our rights and what we should do in case I.C.E tried coming into our

After all logic and ethics, he awakened the emotions of the audience by emphasizing the idea of allowing the families who meet the ‘criteria’ to come out of shadows and reside legally. He created an emotional imagery which spoke volume to the audience when he questioned “Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms? Or are we a nation that values families, and works together to keep them together?” The president did an impeccable job to pursue his audience and made them view this problem as their own and think otherwise. He wants to deport those who are “threats to security”, “felons not families”, “Criminals not children” and that is what most Americans support and the ones who did not, hopefully, did after listening and understanding the meaning behind the speech. President further familiarize the audience with an immigrant student named Astrid Silva who didn’t speak English when she

My side in this DACA situation is that is wrong that President Trump took away and canceled the DACA program. If he was not okay with it, he could have just left it the way that it was and he just shouldn’t have expanded the program into wider programs. These people that are doing the best that they can at school are the dreamers that know that their opportunities grew and that their dreams came true but just like that Trump did not care and took it all away. They should have the same opportunity as we do to be able to go to school so they can have a good job, or even work and they produce a lot of work for this country. For example, the person that can save your life one day can be a dreamer that was able to study and become a doctor. The next person that can clean your teeth the next time that your visit a dentist office can be a dreamer. The time your house is on fire and a firefighter comes to the rescue can be a dreamer. Let's not discriminate these people that are not that different from us. The only difference that we portray is the fact that some of us were born here in the United States and these people were born in a different county. Just because of that, we should not put them aside and treat them differently.

This program allows children brought to America illegally to obtain driver’s license, enroll in college, find legal jobs, pay income taxes, and also serve in the military without the fear of being deported to their country. More than thousands of people could lose their jobs if DACA is taken away forever. It could also cause more than 800,000 dreamers to be uncertain about their future and the possibility of being deported. Following is a Juan Escalante’s story of how and why his family he decided to come to America with his family. “I remember the day I found out I was undocumented. I got a call from an admissions office from a university I had applied to. They wanted to see a green card. I was extremely embarrassed. My mother just started crying. She just started apologizing and told me that it was her fault and that she wanted a better future of us.”. When Juan Escalante was 11 years old, his family and him came to the United States from Venezuela, where life had become dangerous. “We were driving and we stopped at a red light. A man approaches our car and he told my

When you think of an illegal immigrant you may think of a criminal with no morals coming to this country with their only purpose to cause harm to the American people. If this were to be the perception of all immigrants to ever come to the United States we could not be the country we are today. America is a land of opportunity where people come to make a better life for themselves. Without immigrants the United States would not exist. Personally, I would not be here today if my mother did not work her way from Mexico as a young girl to build a better life for herself here in America. She came here with very little, found a job, built herself a life, earned multiple college degrees, got married, had children, and is now living the American Dream…. From illegal immigrant to assistant elementary school principal. It is definitely not fair to say that all immigrants are “bad hombres”, as the American president, Donald Trump once said. The negative connotations that go along with “illegal immigrant” are never anything but bad. The media shines the spotlights on the crimes and awful things some immigrants have done in the past, but never care to included amazing achievements immigrants have made. In fact, Donald Trump's grandfather, Frederick Trump, immigrated here at 16 with the same dream as these dreamers have today; prosper and live The American Dream, and build a better life for themselves and their families.

Specific Purpose: To persuade the members of my audience to support that undocumented students should have access to in-state tuition.

When Donald J. Trump announced in June 2015, American media as a whole wrote him off as a joke. To the United States, he was nothing more than a temporary candidate, the butt of a couple lighthearted democratic jokes about the lack of republican integrity. However, in just a little over two months, Trump has figured out how to use our patriotic predilection for racially-based discrimination to build himself a throne at the top of a behemoth political empire. Donald Trump’s fallacious immigration plan and the responses of Trump’s supporters to this plan work together to unveil a disgusting truth: although the American Dream was constructed by immigrants, it has been deconstructed by the American people to make it nearly

I noticed you sent an announcement out about seeing our grade as of Friday in the handout section, but when I try and click on that section there is no link for it. Also, from what I can recall, on the quizzes, and Rocketmix I am not doing well in your class and would like any and all suggestions you have for me. I'm feeling upset with myself as I've been doing well in all of my classes since attending the CSUDH I'm on track to graduate Summa Cum Laude. I have had many struggles in the past with school and getting my first Associates degree and I believe being a first generation college student did not help matter but now 10 years have past since my first degree and I've learned to be a better college student since then and going into

have you ever wonder how it is to be an immigrant? Traveling over the border to actually be free? To have better job opportunities, to let your children be able to receive the education. Tuesday, November 8. Karla Rodriguez, a senior high school. She’s a regular citizen. On election day, a day to choose our president. Karla was ready. She was ready to go through what was expected. Karla got dressed on a Tuesday morning, getting ready for school. As she left her room, she went downstairs for breakfast. As she stumble down the stairs, her brother’s son started crying. She went back upstairs to go check on the baby. After she was done with the baby, she went downstairs and heard yelling in the kitchen. She heard her abuela and mom fighting over

Even with DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents) Many parents are being deported and little is being done to find a solution. Family is one of the most valuable and essential parts of being a human and it is being taken away from millions every year. One could argue that if family is highly valued then why put them in jeopardy, and in risk of being separated. It all ties back to the family values and wanting the best for their families, no matter what the consequences.

This article looks at the impact enforcement policies have had on Mexican families more broadly and children specifically. Drawing on interviews with 91 parents and 110 children in 80 households, the author suggests that, similar to the injury pyramid used by public health professionals, a deportation pyramid best depicts the burden of deportation on children (Dreby, 2012, Pg. 829). At the top of the pyramid are instances that have had the most severe consequences on children's daily lives: families in which a deportation has led to permanent family dissolution (Dreby, 2012, Pg. 829). But enforcement policies have had the greatest impact on children at the bottom of the pyramid. Regardless of legal status or their family members' involvement with immigration authorities, children in Mexican immigrant households describe fear about their family stability and confusion over the impact legality has on their lives (Dreby, 2012, Pg. 829). These children are moved from placement to placement, or from various family members, or various shelters. They do not feel safe a lot of the time or have any sense of stability. On top of all of this they do not feel a sense of belonging or even welcomed due to their alien status, this status can hender their chances of overall life

Many families are counting on some sort of law being passed because they fear being separated at any time. According to a “voanew” article, there are immigrants who have children that are natural born citizens, and hoping for legal status so that they may stay in the country with their children. “Voanews” political news article mentions that the majority of Republicans are against this, Congressman Beyer said “Republicans are to blame...unfortunately they are the barriers right now to do the right thing, to get them on board”. Despite the fact that most Americans understand the need for low-skilled labor and stated the fact that they support the visa program, many are unaware that they are in short supply and that employers often hire unauthorized workers in large quantities, to do labor that requires large amounts of physical labor. According to an ibtimes political article, the visa program only assigns visas to immigrants for low-skilled occupations and only 5,000 are given out annually. In addition, Immigration USA found that 86 percent of Americans said that undocumented immigrants make important contributions to the economy and that issuing more visas for low-skilled jobs would allow immigrants to pay

“My parents have been keeping a secret from me” my best friend Katia told me one day during our Algebra II class. I looked at her in confusion I didn’t understand why she was so upset, or any idea what her parents would be hiding from her. Looking at her, her face ever so frustrated, she told me “I don’t have a social security, I wasn’t born here, I’m an illegal immigrant”. This was very heavy news, considering the fact that we were only sophomores in high school. I couldn’t imagine the devastation she had to face when she was told by her parents that she couldn’t do or participate in certain things because of her immigration status, that discovery of course, she told me, was very hard for her. Anxiety over deportation should not have been a constant fear for her or anyone’s high school agenda, failing a course, now this, should have been the only scary thing about being in high school. Being the child of two illegal immigrants,who had just received their United States residency, myself, I saw how much my parents struggled. Both of my parents come from underprivileged families who immigrated to the United States came from Mexico to achieve a better life as teenagers. They later met here, got married, and had me here in San Jose, where I became a first generation United States citizen. I saw the amount of time and especially money invested in obtaining their residency, something, by what I understand, a high schooler has a very limited supply of. Time

I really enjoyed your speech today at Gettysburg, PA. What I think is overshadowing your plan is that reporters are only focusing on your comment: