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After watching the video on moral metaphors i went over to the immigration links and watched a you tube video on immigration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvRQEUZH-4k. It was a very interesting first hand interview of these men who live in the streets and work doing whatever they can do because they are immigrants. first off immigration is a very sensitive topic and issue that many people have a very strong opinion about. I have parents who migrated from Mexico to the U.S and I am proud to say that. To me that isn't an embarrassment or anything for me to be ashamed about. My day was a labor union worker and was always there to provide for the family. my mother is a babysitter and does anything she can to provide for the family as well. I was reading the comments on the youtube video that i watched on immigration and one of them was very cruel.

the beaners will never learn... never never never learn... that education is EVERYTHING. get your Shit together back home.. save your pesos and get s SS do things the Right way and think for yourself and not your Pinche fucking family that dosent take care of themselfs...

That is the comment that the person left. and i would like to respond to that. i cannot get it through my head that the word beaner is a necessary word to be used to describe a mexican person, just like a i will never understand niger or even red neck.Those are the words that are used to frame people. Society has made us cruel and rascist whether we know it or not. Yes education IS everything. but Education is also an opportunity and sometimes the opportunity isn't given to those in other countries which is why the united states is the greatest country because we have th opportunities. unfortunately a lot of the people who actually live in the united states and have the opportunity do not take the opportunity and just rub it off like it means nothing. people do not realize how lucky we are to live in this country. My father was a teacher before he came to the united states. He was a social studies teacher and was very successful. And even though he had the greatest education in Mexico it still didn't compare to something as great even being a teacher in the u.s it is just not the same thing, so my parents got married and decided to come to the US. and granted i and very fortunate for that because although my parents were immigrants i am not and i was born here. Slowly but surely my father was able to save enough to have his own home and many luxuries that other do not have the privilege to have. ad although the luxuries are not the important part of this story it is still a plus. the point is people shouldn't sit here and judge everyone based on their race and ignorant thoughts. So why illegals? well yeah they crossed the border and yes they swam the river intact my mother was 8 months pregnant with my brother when she swam across the river. she arrived in california and had contractions, went to the hospital and wasn't helped because of her race... what is her race?? HUMAN!!!! so she ended up giving birth in the hospital bathroom. but you know what that bathroom baby is now? He is a very successful executive who works for the chicago fire team and has a brand new car. How did he get there? EDUCATION. and how was that opportunity given to him? the result of my parents passing the border. so don't say that the family is "lazy". How could you assume that the family doesn't care about themselves? How could you? My father suffered and accident in 2007 that left him incapable of being the same laborer he used to be. what does he do now? nothing because he can't. his body is too frail now due to all of his injuries. In 2009 he became a citizen of the united states he studied and studied and did what he could and he passed and it was the happiest day of his life. recently we were in trial trying to get compensation for his injuries... the result? nothing... the jury found my dad to be unworthy of any compensation because he was a wetback and he shouldn't have been here to take the job that he couldn't do and he suffered and accident because he wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. I could go on and on about how unfair stereotypes are but it isn't going to change anything because the frames are always going to be there, and an immigrant or an illegal is always going to be the evil in this nations eyes... 

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