Illegal Mexican Immigration Analysis

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Immigration has been a major problem that has been happening in this country. Many people believe that if you were not born in the United States of America, you have no right to come here for a chance to live. There are many people that come from countries all over the world trying to find a better life even if it means coming here illegally. The major problem is that the mentality many people have is that every person that is illegal is Mexican, or that every person of colored skin and dark hair is an illegal Mexican. This mentality that people have is what has caused a lot of violence because people have actually gone to believe that they are making everything better by “getting rid of this problem”. Violence is seen as a deterrent to stop …show more content…
The way that Lou kept on encouraging people to take the right measures as he says is bringing on a chance to have people take “justice” into their own hands. Lou did not think about what might actually happen or what people might actually do. All he thought about was the hate he has for “these people” and how much they are ruining this country. The more he showed to encourage the people who listened to the radio show the more people would actually listen and believe they had a right to do as Lou said because they were doing the right thing. Also people would believe that they really were doing the right thing because they thought that Lou did have a point that the government was not doing their jobs so everyone else had to do it for them. For Lou and his supporters Violence was seen to be legally condoned because they were doing the right thing by getting rid of the problem. They believed that these people were actually the ones ruining this country and that they had no right being here. They believed that by getting rid of the people who were assumed to be the problems of this country, then they would be doing justice for everyone and making this country a better one again. Lou Sanchez is a character in the play that is known for speaking of his hatred against Mexicans and speaks about them as if they are all illegal. …show more content…
Lou Dobbs is known as a hypocrite. He wanted all of these people out of the country because he believed that they were just destroying the country but then those people that were ruining this country were the people that were actually fixing up his home and taking care of his horses. Lou Dobbs always spoke about Mexicans that come here illegally as if they were the worst that ever happened to this country and made it seem as if they were parasites. Lou Dobbs made anything that people decided to do against Mexicans to be something that seemed to be the worse than parasites. He also criticized the people who actually gave them any type of employment even though they did not have any papers but then the one and only Lou Dobbs that spoke badly about these people was the exact person who had people working on his property and those people had no papers. He always spoke about never helping the people who come here illegally and to do whatever it actually takes to bring justice back to this country. The way that Lou Dobbs used his position in television to speak this way about the people that come here illegally gave him a chance to always speak to people and telling them that justice will be served when they are taken out of this country

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