Reflection 18

I believe that any act of racism should be charged as a case. I find it disgusting to see how we treat others just because they were not born in the United States. Every single person deserves the right to want to make a better life for themselves and their families. Immigration has been going on for quite some time now. I don’t know how many times I heard on the news about Cubans who were found in the ocean, detained and then sent back home. The most famous story of this was the story of Elian Gonzalez. This was a little boy whose mother died trying to get him to America from Cuba. The boy had family here and there was a huge fiasco for the boy to stay. I remember seeing a picture of him on the newspaper where he was being torn away from his aunt and the police were taking him away. The face on that child was heart breaking. It really bothers me that it doesn’t seem to be a big deal about how these immigrants get treated and no one cares about the families that are kept away from each other or the children who lose their parents and are traumatized from such events. Recently, a man retired from the CNN news crew, I couldn’t be happier when I heard the news. That man was against anyone trying to come here that was not a U.S. citizen. So many immigrants are turned away everyday and what not many people notice is that these people risk their lives and give up everything they have in the hopes that they can come here the “land of the free” the “land of opportunity” to have the life that so many of us take for granted. The Haitians are turned away, mistreated, humiliated, and it’s sickening to think that we just don’t care enough about others. How is this supposed to be the land of opportunity if we only give the opportunity to a few fortunate people? My parents were immigrants and if they would not have risked their lives to come here they would not have met. This generation is basically the first generation of the United States because most of our parents were not from here and immigrated when they were younger. I strongly believe that something should be done in order to give everyone a chance to live the American dream.