Analysis: When Do Papers Matter

It is 4:45 am, Heriberto opens his eyes, thinking of the long journey that awaits at him during the day. Murmuring and anxious to continue sleeping, he realizes that he cannot stay longer in bed. The car is outside waiting for him. 5:50 am Heriberto has arrived to his destination. The bad odor is so strong you can smell since entering the door. He punches a time card, dons a uniform and gets the machine starting. The scrap waste is starting to smell stronger as the day goes by. The wastes passing in the bins make him feel nausea, dizziness. He wants to go home but he cannot. Weakness and pain affect his back bones after standing in the same place for twelve hours a day on foot without rest.
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Illegal immigrants face the obstacles of not being able to apply for any welfare, healthcare, public assistances and unemployment because of their legal status. The only benefit illegals get is public education but this only applies to youth who, instead of working, have the opportunity to study. Gleeson and Gonzales state that “we evaluate the extent to which schools and workplaces differentiate on the basis of documented status and we assess how these two institutions differentially shape immigrant experience”(2). Unauthorized students and workers have different sense of viewing different aspects in The United States, meaning that they taught different on the rights they have as undocumented immigrants. The migrants’ people look at The United States as a beacon of opportunities and prosperity that they end up for the need of getting out of their bankrupt economy in their countries. Yet they do not knowing the multiple inequalities they will encounter in their path to prosperity. As a result several people may not know that in The United Stated a person is not permit to work without having