Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Immigrant Experience ( written for class using the convos I have had with people I know)


     There are a lot of people who suffer in today's society because of what we call the immigrant experience. The immigrant experience usually had to do with a person who leaves their homeland to get away from something or to make something else better. The person usually gets backed into a wall or stumbles on red tape (passports, id e.g.) so they usually get around it and end up here in the United States. They are then raised or live life with very little because they are afraid or to scared to talk about their experience. The immigrant then becomes chastised because people tend to think of them as criminals or people here trying to steal a job or some type of benefit. The person the comes across someone who tells them they are here to help them and then gets ripped off. They end up with a child or more and a dead beat parent with no benefits or support system.

     Usually our society calls these people illegals or aliens. They then come into a realization that they choice they made can hurt or help them. Somewhere along the line someone starts asking questions and then next thing you know you are going to your door and you have federal police looking for you.

     Usually at this time the immigrant has already suffered through poor labor laws and stereotypes. What ends up occurring next is you have police questioning you and placing you in a lock up and you find yourself being locked up in some of the most degrading situations. Your abused probably starved and malnourished and have not seen family or a lawyer. 

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