Latino Community Responsibilities
My grandparents risked their own lives by crossing the Mexico border to come to the United States. They wanted to give their five children a better life and education to follow their dreams. My grandparents decided it was probably the last opportunity that they would have to leave as a family so they took it. They all left with the things that only fit into one suitcase. They had to leave all their belongings and home behind but my grandparents knew it would be a good risk for a better life for their next generation. That's all the Latinos want is a better life and be able to help their loved ones in need. The inequities that the Latino community faces is discrimination and lack of Financial resources. Many Americans have hate towards immigrants
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I believe that everyone should have a chance with the same FAFSA and scholarships opportunities. I believe this is a problem and something should be done. The government lack of effort to provide financial resources for undocumented students does not impact me physically because I was born in the United States but the people around me. Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group and among its fastest growing populations and yet it's terrible how there is still injustices currently in the Latino community. People that I call my family and my peers that I go to school at Alta Vista everyday should be able to get the same opportunities that I get. As I look around the room there is a big number of undocumented students and some are the kindest, closest friends that I been knowing since middle school. Knowing their dream job and what they want to be able to do in the future is terrible because they believe it will never happen because the injustices currently happening in the latino community. The students at Alta Vista that are undocumented are the most hard working students that I see around me. I know that because some go to an early college program while still in school plus on top of that they have a job to go to. I see this situation so unfair because the most hardworking students won't be able to have a chance to have financial resources to help them to go to college. While other students that do have the resources to go on to college don't use
I believe that everyone should have a chance with the same FAFSA and scholarships opportunities. I believe this is a problem and something should be done. The government lack of effort to provide financial resources for undocumented students does not impact me physically because I was born in the United States but the people around me. Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group and among its fastest growing populations and yet it's terrible how there is still injustices currently in the Latino community. People that I call my family and my peers that I go to school at Alta Vista everyday should be able to get the same opportunities that I get. As I look around the room there is a big number of undocumented students and some are the kindest, closest friends that I been knowing since middle school. Knowing their dream job and what they want to be able to do in the future is terrible because they believe it will never happen because the injustices currently happening in the latino community. The students at Alta Vista that are undocumented are the most hard working students that I see around me. I know that because some go to an early college program while still in school plus on top of that they have a job to go to. I see this situation so unfair because the most hardworking students won't be able to have a chance to have financial resources to help them to go to college. While other students that do have the resources to go on to college don't use