Yuli Juarez
Mini-Essay #1: DREAMers-A Movement for Social Justice
The DREAMers are a group of undocumented individuals who came into the United States before the age of 16 but were under the age of 35 when the DREAM Act pass. The Dream activists have created a variety of movements and organizations to stand in solidarity with the DREAMers (undocumented youth) and their families. The document describes a range of issues concerning the public thus motivating them to bring more awareness to the diagnosis of the problems that their community is experiencing. These activist believe that the “immigration system is broken” thus causing them to receive unfair treatment because of their immigration status, limited access to education, and family …show more content…
They provide the audience with empirical evidence that demonstrates statistics of how much the United Sates is investing in deporting people and how much its loosing by not letting DREAMers contribute to paying taxes. According to this wesite the total cost to deport a single person is about $23,000 furthermore the United States risks loosing around $329 billion by 2030 if they continue to exclude DREAMers from paying taxes (cite). This website is resonant because it also stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ community and the community of color. Although this movement has an exact idea of what they want to achieve they lack authority of the speaker. However the authors are credible because they inform the audience that they are the ones experiencing the oppression of the unjust immigration system. I think that if these activists had someone with more experience and authority within the immigration system they would have precise forms of targeting the unfair treatment. The fact that this document is concise makes the language is easy to understand for audiences of all ages. These DREAMer campaigns are also highly supportive of the DREAM Act and use nativity fidelity as they state that they will “continue to challenge the hegemonic view of immigration and fight to end inhumane deportations that separate families through legislative visits, community …show more content…
For instance, they state that they want equal education however for some audiences who are not familiar with this movement could be confused by this statement because they wouldn’t know what exactly they mean by equal education, since some undocumented youth are able to attend college. These activist state that they want to stop deportation however I think that it would be helpful to give alternatives on what they could used instead of deportation. They should also use more empirical evidence to make a valid point on how change could impact this community. Lastly, to be able to encourage more people to participate they should say how effective their campaign has been in addressing the issues being mentions. Even though they had some empirical evidence it would make it a more resonant document if the audience could read specific details or examples on how all of these issues stated in the diagnosis are affecting immigrant community from upward
Mini-Essay #1: DREAMers-A Movement for Social Justice
The DREAMers are a group of undocumented individuals who came into the United States before the age of 16 but were under the age of 35 when the DREAM Act pass. The Dream activists have created a variety of movements and organizations to stand in solidarity with the DREAMers (undocumented youth) and their families. The document describes a range of issues concerning the public thus motivating them to bring more awareness to the diagnosis of the problems that their community is experiencing. These activist believe that the “immigration system is broken” thus causing them to receive unfair treatment because of their immigration status, limited access to education, and family …show more content…
They provide the audience with empirical evidence that demonstrates statistics of how much the United Sates is investing in deporting people and how much its loosing by not letting DREAMers contribute to paying taxes. According to this wesite the total cost to deport a single person is about $23,000 furthermore the United States risks loosing around $329 billion by 2030 if they continue to exclude DREAMers from paying taxes (cite). This website is resonant because it also stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ community and the community of color. Although this movement has an exact idea of what they want to achieve they lack authority of the speaker. However the authors are credible because they inform the audience that they are the ones experiencing the oppression of the unjust immigration system. I think that if these activists had someone with more experience and authority within the immigration system they would have precise forms of targeting the unfair treatment. The fact that this document is concise makes the language is easy to understand for audiences of all ages. These DREAMer campaigns are also highly supportive of the DREAM Act and use nativity fidelity as they state that they will “continue to challenge the hegemonic view of immigration and fight to end inhumane deportations that separate families through legislative visits, community …show more content…
For instance, they state that they want equal education however for some audiences who are not familiar with this movement could be confused by this statement because they wouldn’t know what exactly they mean by equal education, since some undocumented youth are able to attend college. These activist state that they want to stop deportation however I think that it would be helpful to give alternatives on what they could used instead of deportation. They should also use more empirical evidence to make a valid point on how change could impact this community. Lastly, to be able to encourage more people to participate they should say how effective their campaign has been in addressing the issues being mentions. Even though they had some empirical evidence it would make it a more resonant document if the audience could read specific details or examples on how all of these issues stated in the diagnosis are affecting immigrant community from upward