Immigration Issues In The Convenience Store: Film Analysis

1. Before Derrick robbed the convenience store, he narrated that America has immigration problems, Asians are taking over the land with Yen, Mexicans are flocking into the U.S, and overall that the government isn’t doing anything to solve issues but instead granting immigrants with jobs and welfare checks. I disagree to much of what was said but also don’t blame one for agreeing with them either. Many political views are based off of what is personally fed to us, or at least is based off of what the media focuses on and exaggerates. I do believe that we do have an immigration issue, but for a more opposite reason than what Derrick was referring to (huge influx of immigrants who don’t pay taxes and benefit from Americans), my issue with immigration is on the
Another point Derrick mentioned was that Mexicans are flooding into the United States, back in 1999 (the year the movie was released) and 2000, it was a fairly large peak in Mexican immigration into the U.S (Passel and Suro, 2005). For that, in that period of time, I can agree that there was an increase. Lastly, it was said that the government doesn’t do anything but just giving jobs to immigrants and giving them welfare checks. I disagree since the government does more than solely hand out welfare checks and use laws in benefit of immigrants. There are several laws marked in history that did the exact opposite, for example, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986− which put sanctions on employers if they hired undocumented immigrants (Wolgin, 2014). I can applause the way Derrick expressed his narrative entirely in the sense of starting a riot, since it was said with confidence and showed a sense of dedication towards his cause, it definitely rallied up his