Final essay

Mexican did not 1
Jesus Figueroa
Ewrt 1a
08/9/07

Mexicans did not cross the borders, the borders crossed them

In the Mexican American War, the United States gangster their way and stole a lot of Mexican land.Today a lot of
Mexican is crossing the borders every day in search of a better life. However, getting here is no easy tasks you have walk miles
and miles of desert. You do not have a lot of food or water an as you get closer you energy is slowly escaping your body.
When your in the desert you have to endure the hottest and the coldest temperatures wild animals that are waiting for a
weakness, When you finally get here, they find them selves looking straight at a shotgun from a group of racist people called the
minutemen.
The minutemen are a bunch of civilians that go around the borders with shotguns beating and shooting illegal immigrants.
I think this is sick, I do not think they have any right beating innocent people, it’s not their fault that their country is doing bad. I
think the only people that have the right to stop and question these people are the border patrol. One thing we need to
remember is that these people do not want to be here these people come because the have to. How would you feel if you
could not feed your family. What would you do. Many people say that immigrants come and take our jobs. I don’t agree with
this because I no for a fact that many people would not do the jobs immigrants do I. Immigrants have the toughest jobs and the
one that get paid the least. They do jobs from cleaning septic tanks, janitors yard workers, etc. yet I don’t collect unemployment or
get health care, Or child support.

I remember watching this movie called the Invisible Mexicans Of deer canyon. This movie is about this filmmaker named
John Carlos Frey he went into this canyon right under the the suburbs of San Diego. These people lived in cardboard boxes
because they didn't want to spend money on housing so the could send all there money to there families in Mexico. Yet they
have to constantly move because of the people the people from the mansions because the cardboard boxes affect the houses
view. I dint think people already living in such bad conditions deserve to get an even harder time. like what Martin Luther King
states in Letter from Birmingham Jail. "Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever” (King 376). So that's why you
started to see Marches of people who are tiered of there Mexican brothers being abused and persecuted in a land that was
once there's. I think there's other solutions to this problem that having immigrant raids. I think they could have worker programs
for immigrant workers to come and temporary work and make money so they can go home. That would help both the Mexican
and American economy.


Works cited

King, Martin Luther. "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 75 Readings Across The Curriculum.

Ed. Chris Anson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 376.