Immigration have always been in historic times. People who are moving out from their country are desire to seek a better life in United States (US). Immigrants came into the US for good standards of living, stable earnings, safer neighborhoods for their families, and have employment opportunities. Yet immigrants are still treated unfairly and unequally in US due to working poor labor job and getting paid lower wages. Furthermore, undocumented students struggle to attend or qualify for college and US military. Undocumented students are easily rejected from their dreams and can not able to reach their potential goals in US. The dreamers act and movement represents the support of young undocumented students to receive education and citizenship in order to receive their dream careers. According to Civil Rights Movement readings it states, “A perfect example of the starkness of the message supported and amplifies by the starkness of the design.” This quote impacted me because it motivated me to do my own work to defend the rights of my people. I created a poster with a butterfly that symbolize immigrants migrating for a better life, peace, and freedom in US. Butterfly define no harm and hoping for peace in the land. Immigrants struggle living in their own country due to finance, low unemployment jobs, living in dangerous neighborhoods, and poor education for their children. Let immigrants have a chance to feel freedom and acceptance. Young immigrants students study their careers to help our community in the US.
This guide us to discuss about how immigrant families risk their lives to dangerously travel to US in order for their children to have a better future. Immigrants asked for asylum once they arrived in the US in order to set peace and help protection for their families. The US government considered immigrants families who seek asylum were not an excuse for committing an unlawful crime and Border Patrol Agents were obligated to separate parents from their children. Children who are under the age of 13 were sent right away to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) where they received foster care or sponsor. Also, they were sent to detention where the children were not received with medical care or safety. The conditions children lived in detention was not receiving enough food and water, crowded space, getting risk of any diseases, sleeping on the floor, and being in cold temperatures. The long-term harm children have experienced in detention has a huge impact on their mental health. In chapter 5 in the Civil Rights I Have a Dream states that “SNCC used photography to show hard evidence of crimes against humanity so the uncomfortable, brutal truth couldn’t be disputed or ignored.” There are evidence of photos of how immigrant families are treated terrible in detentions center it is like prison. Immigrants who are slowly dyeing from sickness, overcrowded, unsanitary, and cold temperatures. Even worse sometimes parents are not reunited with their children because the Office of Refugee Resettlement didn't show indication if their child is in the system. Both children and parents can have emotional and psychological effects of separation and mental health problems. Parents who haven’t able to see or find their children within months. I hope my poster send a message to people about immigrants are only hoping for a new life of peace, harmony, freedom and safety for the families. Keeping families together and stop children being separated from their parents.
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| Migration for a Better Life. I put it on my car for everyone to see while I drive. Butterfly is known for peace and freedom. By: Isabel Anaya |
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