Why Is Immigration Important To Latinos

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Immigration has become a major topic of discussion. This issue isn’t something that is black and white, or cut and dry. Immigration has many layers and issues that can not only decide one person’s fate, but whole families fate. It’s something bigger than just one person, but an entire nation’s fate. Immigration effects economy, politics, and society as whole. Immigration will increase in the upcoming decades. Immigration not only covers legal, but also illegal immigration. Immigration is mostly made up of Latinos, whether from Mexico or Latin America. This essay will focus solely on Immigration when it comes to Latinos. First of all, Immigration has a major impact on the United States economy. This type of immigration focuses on the Latino …show more content…
Within the Latino community they are fighting against one another because some people want to follow Marxist ideals, while other people don 't (Darder, 1998, pg.5). Not following these ideas has caused the group fight amongst themselves especially in regards to gender, and sexual orientation. One example of this is that Latino feminist seem to fight against gender roles, and work towards more gender equality; however, they are meet with oppression saying that by doing this they are fighting ruining unity within their people. it can be said that naturalists believe that Latino people that are gay, bisexual or lesbian are ruining the movement for unity (Darder, 1998, pg.13). In the last 30 years Latinos have tried to be like everyone else in order to stay here. They essential have given up important aspects of their culture, in order to give their children a better life. Many have given up being able to speak they only language that they know. Personally, being forced to give up the only language I know is wrong and cruel. They are even made to feel like they don’t matter, their voice doesn’t matter. That’s not far or right, when they first came here they were treated horrible. The United States made them work long hours and hard jobs. During World War 2, they were both happy but treated horribly. The bracero program was brought about in the 1940’s to help the labor shortage, because of World War 2 (Bracero History archive, n.d., par.1). People of Mexico were able to cross the border and be able to work. The problem with this is that when their contracts were over they didn’t return to Mexico. Operation wetback references violation someone human rights and moving immigrants further south (Peralta,2015, par.3). These people that were moved went without food and water. It essentially deported many legal United States Citizens (Peralta,2015, par.3). The United States special

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