This commercial is about how horrible illegal immigrants are, and that we US citizens need to elect officials that will say NO to illegal immigration and will try to make our border between Mexico and the US more secure. The commercial says that it's unbelievable that illegal immigrants are protesting in our country, that illegal immigrants are filling up our jails, hospitals and schools which is "costly", and that Mexicans are singing the national anthem in spanish which is "priceless." While the man was voicing that it had pictures on the screen with the words 15,000,000 illegal aliens. It is trying to make the American citizens angry because the government cares more about pandering the illegal immigrants, who can't even vote, while ignoring YOU the LEGAL, TAX PAYING, AMERICAN CITIZEN. It ends with telling the watchers to make sure that the elected officials wanted more secure borders and said NO to amnesty.
This commercial was treating the immigrants as if they were not human beings, as if they were weeds invading the most beautiful garden in the world. In reality they are just a different type of flower, one we are not used to. Tying this back to my first post, the one about Democrats and Republicans I feel that Republicans probably made that video, seeing as they are more save the US than save the people. At first I didn't believe it was real but I clicked on the web sight and you can donate to the cause to say no to amnesty and to help secure our borders.
When Reyna came to the US there were people, even other Latino people that called her a "wetback." A wetback is a Mexican living in the US without official authorization. I think that most of those people had parents, or other family members that were illegal immigrants, they even might have been too. People get selfish once they are in the US, they don't want any other people who "don't belong" coming into their country. I think that the people who support these kind of commercials would be a danger to people crossing the border, the people who see them could get violent, or they could just call border control and get them out, but seeing how strict they are about it I wouldn't be surprised if they got angry.
I personally am okay with people coming into the US, they want and sometimes need to have a better life so that they can survive and their family can survive. Had Reyna not made it across the border I probably wouldn't be writing this right now. The US needs to take the things that we have and use them to help others, not only ourselves. Reyna used what this country had and she turned out just as good, if not better than most Americans. Just because they speak a different language, have a different skin color, or from a different country doesn't mean that the people crossing the border aren't humans.
Link to the video: Illegal Immigrant Commercial
I honestly can't believe that commercial would actually be a real thing. It's hard for me to understand how a nation of immigrants can attempt to deny the privileges of this country to other immigrants.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the video that you used as an artifact. It was not only interesting, but a great artifact, that I didn't find. I thought it was really cool of you to put in an artifact that you disagreed with entirely. It was awesome, good job!
ReplyDeleteIt clearly shows your opinion that you look at these immigrants as people too and not as people coming to be a strain on the economy.
ReplyDeleteThis post is overall just really good. You did a great job at explaining things that some people might not understand. I also really liked how you used the flower vs. weed analogy. You did a good job relating it to the book and respectfully sharing your own opinion. :)
ReplyDeleteThis post is really good it shows how much you understand ad your great writing skills. The flower vs. Weed analogy was amazing and really haloed me understand your point of view! :)
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