Fairfield, Connecticut the immigration problem
Immigration is the biggest problem in the United States. Anywhere you go there are illegal people from different races not just only Hispanics because that is what most of the people think that Hispanics are the only illegal people in the United States. In the past 10 years the population of immigrants has grew exponentially but as well the amount of deportations. Deportations is the harshest situation to go through. Not just adults are being deported but as well children and when I see that makes me feel pretty bad to see them suffer.
This topic is really painful for me to talk but at the same time I can relate to it. That is because I come from a family where both of my parents are immigrant they are from Mexico. My mother came to the United States in the year 1994, while my stepfather came to the United States in the year 1995. Both have been hard workers to support the family by providing food and home. Am a citizen as well as my younger brother that is 10 years old. We live in New Haven, Connecticut and I am a college student in a junior year at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
We live in the 21st Century and there is still some racial but now it is involving the Hispanics. Especially now that Donald Trump became the new president he has overgrown the situation. When Donald Trump in his discussion mentioned about building the wall at the border between Mexico and the United States it made no sense. He even said that he won’t pay it to be built, the Mexican government has to pay it. It makes no logic because even though making a wall as tall as he thinks it can be there are other ways for the immigrants to pass. That won’t become an obstacle for them instead it provide more ideas to pass.
Here comes the biggest problem deportation. Deportation it has been increasing and happens every second. Like I mentioned in the beginning is not just adults that get deported, children get deported as well. There are cases that I hear in the news that mothers who are pregnant even get caught and deported. I can’t imagine what that women went through in order to pass and have a better life for her and her baby. Not even the process is long because once they get caught they get sent to the immigration center where the officers get their information and then get put into a cell where there are other people waiting for them to be sent back to Mexico or any other Hispanic country. These people that are being deported have families, they haven’t committed any crime basically they are good people that come to the United States to work and have a better. Not only deportation happens in the border between Mexico and the United States when the people pass over but it also happens in the homes. There are situations that I have seen the news that ICE comes to home and takes whoever is an immigrant. They don’t care if their child is the watching them or how they are crying asking them to not take their parents.
It’s just harsh to see that happen. When I was little and understood the immigration and deportation situation I had fear that my parents would be taken away from me. There was a time where police officers were stopping cars and asking them if they had license and if they did not have one and instead showed another license let’s say from Mexico they would be taken and then deported. Not only children’s had fear but as well as the parents because they were the ones that had to go out to work and just had fear to be caught and taken.
Ever since the population of Hispanics have increased the topic of citizenship has been mentioned but nothing has been done. For example, the president Barack Obama he said that he would make DAPA for the parents who have been in the United States for a long period and has worked hard and at the same time gave something to the United States government. Now that he has left the presidential DAPA was not realized and is hard to think that Donald Trump might do something for the immigrants. Now he is planning to take away the DACA which is for those children who have been here for a while and want to keep studying and have that chance to become someone in life. All this immigration and deportation situation gives me a feeling that nothing is going to change. Deportations would still happen and families would be separated. I thank God that my parents have not been deported and have been with me and now with my little brother. That is why I a citizen of the United States want to make a change and that is demonstrate to those in the government or not even just people in generally who are racist to Hispanics that Hispanics are good people they are not bad. They are like every other person a hard worker trying to earn money to have a better life.
