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Marielitos Informative Speech

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All, Here is your Friday's history lecture. The same thing was said about the "Marielitos" and today we see how well they and their descendants have integrated themselves into our society. If you do not know what "Marielitos" means then check out Scarface Movie or do your research. I will recommend for you to do your research vice letting Hollywood to teach you about "Marielitos". After you do your research, you will learn how these "Marielitos" or I should say Cubans were called by many politicians and the media murderers, rapists, thieves, prostitutes, violent criminals, communists, psychopaths, etc... and that later they were portrayed by Hollywood as drug dealers scaring the American people to death. After all, these "Marielitos" were not as bad as the politicians …show more content…

By the way, did not we see the same thing after WWII when we received millions of refugees coming from Europe seeking for asylum in the US and after the Vietnam War when many Vietnamese escaped their country running away from the Vietcom? Again, these refugees turned out "ok". Didn't they? Only a few bad apples joined the mob. Which by the way Hollywood benefited from them since Hollywood produced great movies such as "The Godfather", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Goodfellas", "A Bronx Tale", "Casino", "Gotti", etc... Let's be real! We all benefit from situations like this. Illegal immigrants, refugees, criminals whatever at the end we all benefit from each other. In my opinion nothing has changed, they all want to come to a great nation like our looking for freedom, equality, and an new opportunity in life. The sad part is that when they come here they soon realize that they are not as equal as they thought they would be. I am not totally concerned with these 20,000 people being released to the public. Australia had it worse than us and those criminals sent there from Great Britain's prisons and later released to society they

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