Undocumented Immigrants
The New American Reality
Thousands around the county gathered this past Saturday for immigration reform with a message of Dignity and Respect. As I stood at the immigration rally here in Dallas Reverchon Park to show support. I thought, what is my community doing? When the hell did my parent's "Si Se Puede!" turn into a civil disobedience that would lead to an arrest? With my work clothes, right after a meeting in Dallas, I stood there and judged what seemed to be the faces of my neighbors, my friends, my fellow dreamer peers and my own family. As I continued to take pictures merely for the satisfaction of receiving a few Facebook likes on my videos and pictures, I realized that America has given my community and the millions of other undocumented individuals in this country no other choice. They were taking extreme measures like blocking traffic, screaming and being arrested.
They have pushed them aside, treated them as second-class citizens and left them to go to extreme measures to find a path not only to the possibility of citizenship, but a path to a dignified life. The path that can lead them to better opportunities. I watch the news on immigration and I don’t have to go far to see the hate against our community. It is happening here in our own back yard cities like Farmer Branch, are denying undocumented people the right to rent an apartment for lack of documentation. Undocumented immigrants live under the shadow and fear of being deported back to their homeland.
As I stood in the rally it became so real for me because I cannot lie and say I felt proud to see such disruption from those who looked like me. Then I realized that if they were willing to put themselves in this situation that didn't give them anything except an arrest and even put some of them in danger of deportation, that their courage and valor can never be measured with the mere struggle of any American.
They are extraordinary, they are the face of America and their passion goes
Thousands around the county gathered this past Saturday for immigration reform with a message of Dignity and Respect. As I stood at the immigration rally here in Dallas Reverchon Park to show support. I thought, what is my community doing? When the hell did my parent's "Si Se Puede!" turn into a civil disobedience that would lead to an arrest? With my work clothes, right after a meeting in Dallas, I stood there and judged what seemed to be the faces of my neighbors, my friends, my fellow dreamer peers and my own family. As I continued to take pictures merely for the satisfaction of receiving a few Facebook likes on my videos and pictures, I realized that America has given my community and the millions of other undocumented individuals in this country no other choice. They were taking extreme measures like blocking traffic, screaming and being arrested.
They have pushed them aside, treated them as second-class citizens and left them to go to extreme measures to find a path not only to the possibility of citizenship, but a path to a dignified life. The path that can lead them to better opportunities. I watch the news on immigration and I don’t have to go far to see the hate against our community. It is happening here in our own back yard cities like Farmer Branch, are denying undocumented people the right to rent an apartment for lack of documentation. Undocumented immigrants live under the shadow and fear of being deported back to their homeland.
As I stood in the rally it became so real for me because I cannot lie and say I felt proud to see such disruption from those who looked like me. Then I realized that if they were willing to put themselves in this situation that didn't give them anything except an arrest and even put some of them in danger of deportation, that their courage and valor can never be measured with the mere struggle of any American.
They are extraordinary, they are the face of America and their passion goes