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Our Vision for America

“That is a very large television.”
“Ah, yes,” he says, chuckling. “Samsung SMT-4023, 42 inches. Best value, color space, and resolution.”
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Of course.”
“The first time I went into a house like this in Bombay, they had no beds, but they had a television as big as this. I mean, how can a TV be more important than a bed?”
“Ah, that’s simple. A bed keeps you in a slum. A flat screen takes you out,”
“Ah,” she realized.
This was a dialogue between a woman from Dubai, Kala, and a Kenyan boy - Capheus, written by Lana and Andy Wachowski. While this writing isn’t particularly poetic or elaborate, it says so much, so humbly. Capheus, the boy from Kenya, knows what poverty is. He lives in it, he breathes …show more content…

America has always been a country of safe haven to those with nowhere else to go; when home means the barrel of a gun, when the poverty strikes you like a hatchet, if not suffocating you first. When there is no home left, America has been there - strong and sturdy and safe. Undocumented workers, whether you acknowledge them for this or not, perform a critical role in our economy. They often harvest and process our food, and without them, food production and agriculture in the U.S. would significantly decline. They also work in architecture, building many of our homes, and working as hired hands. We even entrust them with what we hold most sacred - the wellbeing of our children. This country faces many problems, of which we cannot solve unless we are united in solving them. Seeing someone threaten to deport millions of hard workers, alter the constitution, and fence off America, closing off the Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave!, I see something wrong with that! We are a nation of immigrants - and that is the strength of …show more content…

You ask what my vision for America is, and well, my vision for America is an America where I can attend college. My vision for America is an America where I can start a family one day, without worrying how I can feed them. My vision for America, is an America where I can live a life born from an immigrant, while granted the rights and opportunities of everyone else. My vision for America is an America that holds my

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