The US government is in complete knowledge of this matter, in a way they encourage this because to them is an advantage to have people who will be willing to work for little money on those jobs that the American minorities did not want to take. It is a fact, the border line with Mexico is not enforced enough to stop people from crossing it over. To cover this up and to give the idea to US citizen that the government is taking care of stopping illegal immigration, they deport a certain amount of people a year.
As I said before, those people who have no chance to enter legally to the US and are tired of living in misery and poverty in their own country, seek for a new life, opportunities, health care, jobs and mostly a better education for their children. These people are capable of doing everything to get to the US, such as Cubans and Dominicans cross the Caribbean Sea by small boats or, even in desperate cases, by swimming. There is a song called ‘’ Visa Para Un Sueño’’ by Juan Luis Guerra which truly represents the feeling of Dominicans when they try to get their visa to fly away and never come back to the island. Do you actually think that crossing borders illegally is the best way to run away from where you belong, no matter what reasons encourage you to do it?
Carolina Yubini.
Countries like Mexico and Dominica republic tend to have a very big breach between social classes, so the poor are extremely poor and have little chance of making a better life for themselves in their own country. So they decided to move to the USA or any other “rich country” by any means possible. Crossing border illegally is very dangerous; I suppose the people that do this don’t have any other choice. The sad thing about this situation is, they go through great danger to leave behind a country they don’t like, weather is for economic or political reasons, to go in to a country where they will be discriminated against, and most of them will not achieve their economic goals. Most of us can hardly imagine what being in that situation must be like, so we can´t say what we would do if we were in their place.
ReplyDelete