Case Study: Mr. Ramos

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The issue within this small community in Salinas, California, tends to be that a portion of immigrant children are suffering undocumented identity problems because they were born in Mexico. Mr. Ramos has been teaching third grade for about 15 years. Mr. Ramos’s students are primarily Mexicans and half of the class are immigrant. That’s to mean, the majority of kids’ families follow agricultural season. Mr. Ramos was also born in Mexico and that’s why he could feel the empathy. He is keeping help his student, Jose, to do something good for his life even though Jose isn’t a U.S. citizen.
As for me, I know it is scarcely possible that to enact a law, which allows all immigrants to be U.S. citizens. However, instead of that, I would propose that

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