Immigration. Deportation. Alienation. Rejection.
Deportation has been a issue for many centuries. I am here to tell you the view of deportation of Mexican individuals from a first generation Hispanic students eyes. May this evidence on the attack on Mexico and its culture bring you a new understanding of what is like to sit back and see the destruction of ones culture.
In the United States of America, the values installed upon use as children is to believe the common ideology of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, how can one be happy if one day you wake up and your parents are gone because they took the wrong road to work? How can one be happy if the mere thought of attending college is stripped away because DACA ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is in danger? Lastly, how can one be happy when the people who are in charge of your country focus more on making sure their twitter followers are high in numbers rather than helping other HUMANS who are in danger?
As a Hispanic student, many of these issues hit home; yet, this is a topic that is looked over in many cases. It does not just stop here their is rejection of people all over the world for example, you have the Hurricane that hit Puerto Rico. What did the president do for those people? Nothing, even thought those people he refused to help are considered CITIZENS. The President again was using his twitter more than even supplying Puerto Rico with a simple necessity like water. It is a bit absurd to even believe that President Trump would even consider to help those who supposed to be considered equal to “us”. Connecting back to immigration, and how people who are not considered to be equal of citizenship are looked down upon is disgusting.
In an article written by Dara Lind, No, seriously, the Trump administration is building a wall, illustrated the idiotic law forms that President Trump follows in regard to those seeking asylum in the United States. This is described as “… the administration will waste billions upon billions of dollars for physical barrier…and many of the people crossing are asylum seekers…”. In the eyes of myself, a Latina, I find it hard to believe that our nation would much rather build a wall for people who seek nothing but help from our nation rather than actually help those people who are in danger. For example, like the poor people of Puerto Rico who are still struggling to repair all that was lost when Hurricane Maria hit. Yet, in the eyes of the United States they are succeeding by focusing on keeping the “bad hombres” out of America as described by Dara Lind. Yet, their is other disaster far worse than people simply trying to seek shelter for their family.
In addition, in an article written by Julie Hirschfeld David, Trump’s Immigration Tweets Followed by Policy Plans to Match, depicts the harsh reality of life the of individuals who are trying to find asylum in the United States. It is almost repulsive the lack of empathy this man has for individuals who want nothing but safety. In the article it is depicted as, “ …more difficult for asylum seeks to demonstrate “credible fear” about returning to their home countries…”. The people who are seeking asylum must first not only prove themselves worthy of even receiving the change of shelter but also leave behind all that they know.
While taking Professor Tanya Rawal’s class, Literary Response to Disaster and Repression, we as a class examined other instances where the United States failed to aid those who are human just like ourselves. For example, we examined the novel written by Indira Sinha, Animals People, the author depicts the life of a young man who goes by the name, Animal, who was sadly affected by a terrible gas leak. This novel, is written in a series of interviews depicting how the people of India viewed those who supposedly were there for help when in reality they were not. However, this novel evidently shows the dark side of the corporate world as nothing is truly being done for the people who simply want help or treatment for their conditions caused by THEIR own gas leak. As depicted as, “ You’ll talk of rights, law, justice.Those words sound the same in my mouth as in yours but they don’t mean the same…”(3). I found myself to be in awe of this simple quote, this quote speaks for those who are dealing with similar situations to this day. In regardless to present day issues, it deals with those like President Trump trying to justify their actions because they are seen as lawful in the eyes of those in the nation. However, the eyes of those on the counterpart are never to be addressed.
Whether the fight against allowing Mexican immigrants seeking asylum in the United Stated, to aiding those who actually are in need of our assistance, and the mere necessity to value one another as HUMANS, will continue to be a battle. I know sitting here typing this as a Hispanic Latina student it is gut wrenching knowing my people/culture are in the hands of those who do not even care for my people is appalling. The United States, should therefore focus on issues that should be dealt with immediately rather than trying to reject those who are seeking sympathy for their circumstances.
Works Cited
Davis, Julie Hirschfeld. “Trump’s Immigration Tweets Followed by Policy Plans to Match.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/us/politics/trump-immigration-mexico-daca.html.
Lind, Dara. “No, Seriously, the Trump Administration Is Building a Wall.” Vox, Vox, 13 Mar. 2018, www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/13/17107034/trump-border-wall-mexico
Sinha, Indra. Animal’s People. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009.
