Las ventajas de vivir en los Estados Unidos son más trabajo pero los trabajos no pagar mucho. Las personas indocumentadas no reciben mucho pago y no pueden hacer mucho porque la migra puedo deportar a sus países natales. El dinero es necesario para mantener a sus familias pero sin papeles legales, es muy difícil a encontrar trabajo bueno. Si las personas indocumentadas no reciben mejores trabajos, no pueden vivir vidas buenas. Necesitamos a ayudar los inmigrantes porque merecen vidas mejores.
Prince '22 (BHSEC Queens)
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Es difícil pensar que algo decir que no ya sabemos. Sabemos que los estadounidenses los usan inmigrantes para hacer el trabajo no quieren hacer. Sabemos que la imagen de la vida de un inmigrante a estadounidense es una mentira. Sabemos que los inmigrantes vienen a Los Estados Unidos para encontrar una vida mejor, pero no es posible, porque Los Estados Unidos es un lugar de odio. Sabemos que el sistema no funciona. El problema es que no nos importa.
Decimos que no sabemos cómo ayudar a los inmigrantes, pero la verdad es que no queremos. La inmigración no es un crimen. El crimen es que entendemos los inmigrantes nos necesitan y no nos importa. El criminal es el estadounidense. Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) Mis padres son inmigrantes. Recuerdo que cuando yo tenía un año, la policía llamó a nuestra puerta. Fue tres años después de 9/11 y la policía estaba llamando a las puertas de todos las personas por seguridad. Mi papá era indocumentado en ese momento y cuando mi mamá miró a la puerta, ella empezó a llorar. Recuerdo que estaba en la cocina y yo vi a mi mi mamá caminando de un lado a otro del pasillo. Mi tío habló con la policía. Después de que se fueron, ella estuvo muy aliviada. Siempre me imagino lo que hubiera pasado ese día y que haría sin mi padre.
Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) Tengo ocho años.
Tengo un osito de peluche. Tengo esperanzas y sueños. Vivo en México con mis padres. Me gusta la escuela y me gustan mis amigos. Pero mis padres saben que nuestro país no es seguro. Vamos a cruzar la frontera. Tengo ocho años. Tengo un osito de peluche. Tengo esperanzas y sueños. No tengo una casa. Tengo miedo. Tengo mucho mucho miedo. Estoy cruzando la frontera. Tengo ocho años. Tengo un osito de peluche. Tengo esperanzas y sueños. Vivo en los Estados Unidos con mis padres. Me gusta la escuela y me gustan mis amigos. Mis padres saben que este país es seguro. Crucé la frontera. Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) 'Everyone wants to live “the American dream” because the system looks so flawed from the outside. This is until the truth is shown and one is able to see all of the hardships that immigrants have to face. For starters, one disadvantage of being an immigrant is the long process of getting papers and legally becoming a citizen in the United States. In the meantime, they have to deal with hiding from the police and get jobs that are off the books. They put up with rude bosses and low wages, all because they can’t legally report a work issue since they are illegal. They are often stuck doing the hard and dangerous jobs that nobody else wants to do while getting paid less than minimum wage. Immigrant children have to face discrimination and bullying because they have a foreign accent or because they aren’t as rich as the majority of the kids around them. The last disadvantage of being an immigrant is that often times, immigrants are separated from their families. They are either separated from their close or extended families, causing them to feel lonely and depressed because they do not have the people they love around them during tough times. Despite the difficult aspects of being an immigrant, there are still many benefits. To start, one advantage of being an immigrant is the support groups that come with being an immigrant. Support groups such as DACA help support people who are undocumented and help them find jobs. Additionally, another advantage of being an immigrant is that you will be on a much better career path due to the great education system and colleges in the US. This allows people to follow their dreams and choose a profession that they want to pursue. Another benefit of being an immigrant is the ability to contribute your culture in order to make the United States the melting pot that it is today. The United States would not be so diverse if it wasn’t for all of the immigrants who came from all around the world and contributed their cultures and ideas in order to make it possible. There is no denying that immigrants in the United States have a very hard time, but it is important to keep pushing in order to have a bright future. Working hard and staying strong through tough times is important because in the end, it will all pay off, leaving all of the pain and suffering to be nothing but a distant memory.
Mariam Abozeid '22 (BHSEC Queens) Perspectivas Cambiantes
Finalmente estamos en la tierra donde hay muchas oportunidades. Liberated ¡finalmente! Pero, pero ¿porqué no SOMOS bienvenidos? ¿Hacemos algo incorrecto? ¿Porqué el presidente nos odia? Corremos de nuestros países y nuestras casas* para llegar aquí pero aquí también es muy peligroso . Si la policía nos encuentran, nos envían de regreso a nuestro país. Desafortunadamente la vida de los inmigrantes es muy difícil en sus países y en los Estados Unidos, "la tierra de oportunidades". Pero, ¡estamos unidos y necesitamos ayudar a los inmigrantes! Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) They come to America for a better Life
Seeming oblivious of the strife The opportunities may be thrilling Problems follow so come ready and willing They come to America, the land of opportunities Unaware of the small toxic communities The communities they are told to ignore Its not easy when they show up at your door They come to America, the melting pot Diversity, for what their ancestors fought So why we must ask, are they undesired For reasons including being hired They come to America, for what lies ahead So their children can follow the dreams they've said They set their family's up with this foundation A better life for them, their kids, and future generations Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) My father is an immigrant from Germany, he moved to the United States fresh out of college to pursue his dreams of being a chef. I am the child of an immigrant. Yet it never really feels like that and I often forget it. Even when talking to my friend on the subway, who asked about my parents voting, I completely forgot that my dad can’t vote. My dad had been here for more than twenty years, he has worked at the same place for twenty years, lived in the same neighborhood. Yet like him, many immigrants don’t get to be a ‘full’ member of society because they weren’t born here.
We don’t speak German at home and all my relatives live in Germany, so I’m not constantly reminded of my background, like how I think many are. When I think about being an immigrant or an immigrant’s child, there is always some stereotypical idea that I think of. For me, one of these is being raised with very strict parents that will hit you with a belt if you don’t do something correctly. Everyone I know laughs about this and it seems like such a commonality between so many people. I know this is stereotypical, yet so many people relate to this. However, I don’t, I missed the piece of that story that interwove the pages of many stories. I didn’t grow up in a household where they would spank or hit me as punishment, which believes me I’m fine with. Yet oftentimes in my head I think I see myself as an “in-valid” child of an immigrant. My life has been really privileged in a lot of ways and I’m very thankful for that, but sometimes I feel like I don’t have a very strong sense of my culture and even the stuff I do have is falling away. Even when my father and I go to Germany to visit my family I feel so alone and separated from everyone in my family. I don’t speak German because I never learned successfully when I was little and as the years went on, it there never seemed to be time. I sit there in silence as they talk around me and laugh and I have no clue what's going on, I look clueless to not just to everyone else but also to myself. As I have become older it seems almost silly to try and learn German or to understand this language that I was locked out of. I feel like I have lost a sense of my culture, yet there never seems time to find it. I’m so busy with what's going on in school or other aspects of my life, I never have time to do things that are important to me, like learning German. Although New York is supposed to be a place of great diversity and the celebration of many cultures, I think in some ways it’s driven me further away from mine. I know this is not just true for me too, however in other ways people are literally being told their culture is not welcome, nor are they. The world is so busy shutting people out, they lose sight of how great it is and how important it is to welcome people in. The one thing I have learned lately is that there is no right way to be an immigrant or a child of one. I think because of my race everyone assumes I’m a through-bread American, and sometimes I forget that I’m not. When you look around the room all you see is faces, yet they all have some hidden meaning inside them. Being an immigrant is something powerful and something to rejoice about, and it’s a pity that some don’t see it that way. Kailey '22 (BHSEC Queens) As children of immigrants, we all face different experiences, we hear several different stories of their childhood, their journey to this country and reason, their life here and the hardships they endured. There are probably several of you that feel like your parents don’t understand you or that your parents are too old school and don’t realize what life is like now but how many people think about the fact that their parents feel the same exact way you do when you’re trying to get through to them. Being a child of an immigrant family isn’t easy, there are some things that are hard to explain to your parents and vice versa. I feel that the biggest hardship as an immigrant is trying to get through to your kids but also understanding their perspective. I’m not a parent so I obviously don’t understand that or actually know that, however, I do know that not many people have the closest relationship to their parents and they’re trying their absolute best to make up for all the effort that their parents have given to make sure that their life is the best it could possibly be. This is all from experience in my own life but also stories from my friends that I hear every time we talk.
Anonymous '22 (BHSEC Queens) The U.S has a varying amount of advantages and disadvantages for immigrants. Which may be why many immigrants come to the U.S for better opportunities. My parents had come to the U.S to seek more opportunities for themselves and their children. They did find better opportunities here than in their home country but it was still hard for them to live because they were pretty much seen as “illegal immigrants.” They’re still working are getting visas and trying to help my aunts and uncles to get their visas as well. They’ve been living a better life here than compared to their home countries so you can say the U.S holds some advantages for immigrants. When it comes to the U.S there are many disadvantages for undocumented immigrants and documented immigrants as well. The main disadvantage is having to deal with deportation agencies like I.C.E. In the U.S there are also limited job opportunities because some immigrants may not meet certain quantities. And at the time of the movie, undocumented immigrants couldn’t drive cars or any type of vehicle. And the overall cost of trying to get visas and green cards. And also the idea of having to watch your every move but you could be deported or something else up that alley because of a simple mistake. Undocumented immigrants I guess would have fewer rights because they wouldn’t be able to report like fraud or something that had occurred to them without risking their own safety. However, the U.S does have plenty of advantages for immigrants. Advantages such as better wages compared to their home countries and being able to bring food to the table and buy common living needs. Violence is another advantage, many families come here to either escape war, poverty, or violence from their home countries and the U.S, I guess has less violence compared to other countries. The U.S is also a place for religious freedom and has better living conditions, again families who usually immigrate to the U.S are most likely trying to look for a better life, escaping poverty. This better life would also include better education which the U.S offers, another advantage for immigrants. Overall the U.S contains both advantages and disadvantages for both documented and undocumented immigrants. Lesley Tapay '23 |
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