Anti-Mexico Border Speech

Nowadays when we hear the word “Border”, with everything going on politically speaking the majority of us are indoctrinated to think of the U.S.-Mexico Border. A great amount of people think of the idea of the now famous wall to be built under our new president’s enforcement of it. From speaking with my group members, the topic of the border struck close to home for most of us. Personally there are a few words that pop up instantly when the word border is said, demarcation, stereotypes, parents, “coyote”, deadly, and overall sadness.
When people were crossing the border back then and had to be sent to showers, had to have certain vaccines, and were practically dehumanized and stripped from their identity it was the beginning of some label constructs of all Mexicans. All of these terms continue to be applied to people of darker complexions, people that “appear to be Mexican”. After learning where the term “wetback” came from it stuck to me more than the rest. The term came about from racialization from people that crossed the Rio Grande. My dad when crossing the border had to pass through a stream that was full of bacteria and was as he describes to be filthy. He still faces the consequences from that stream because even though it’s been 20 …show more content…
Especially in times now, all that is thought of, politically speaking is the idea of a wall. It’s very upsetting that building a wall has become the solution to stop “potential immigrants”, rather than trying to resolve and eventually have a compromise that would lead to open borders. Putting aside the idea of drugs being brought across the border, I try and avoid the thought of that because in my view the border represents separation. However, the separation of families seems to not matter much because according to our president a wall will fix all the problems with the southern