SUMMARY:
This documentary was essentially about Latin Americans, from Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico that migrated to the United States. This documentary went in depth on the history between America and all these countries individually. Each country had a complex history where they migrated to the United States because of many dangerous environments within their country that was caused directly or indirectly by the United States. Many Latin Americans went through hell in order to get here (US). It’s not right to want to kick them out since history shows how much they’ve done for the US. The section of the movie that I found the most interesting was how Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship right before World War 2, so that US could draft 20,000 Puerto Rican soldiers. This was one of the ways America mistreated Latin Americans to benefit themselves. All the Latin American countries’ immigrants, legal or illegally, are misunderstood to the extent of the reason why they came to the States. Latin America is a majority of the US population, and is growing every year.
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Many of the South West was part of Mexico. Mexicans were long on that land before any European migrants. I find this to be powerful knowledge since many Americans do not know this and it can change what people think about Latin American immigrants.
“You’re going to march through our streets … excuse me, you don’t have any rights in America” (White Newscasters). I don’t think it was right for this man to say on the news. I disagree with this because every human has rights. No matter where they came from. Unless they’ve done something harmful then it’ll make sense. Otherwise it’s dehumanizing just to judge someone based off their biological aspects and where they came from if they haven’t done anything wrong.
This documentary was essentially about Latin Americans, from Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico that migrated to the United States. This documentary went in depth on the history between America and all these countries individually. Each country had a complex history where they migrated to the United States because of many dangerous environments within their country that was caused directly or indirectly by the United States. Many Latin Americans went through hell in order to get here (US). It’s not right to want to kick them out since history shows how much they’ve done for the US. The section of the movie that I found the most interesting was how Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship right before World War 2, so that US could draft 20,000 Puerto Rican soldiers. This was one of the ways America mistreated Latin Americans to benefit themselves. All the Latin American countries’ immigrants, legal or illegally, are misunderstood to the extent of the reason why they came to the States. Latin America is a majority of the US population, and is growing every year.
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Many of the South West was part of Mexico. Mexicans were long on that land before any European migrants. I find this to be powerful knowledge since many Americans do not know this and it can change what people think about Latin American immigrants.
“You’re going to march through our streets … excuse me, you don’t have any rights in America” (White Newscasters). I don’t think it was right for this man to say on the news. I disagree with this because every human has rights. No matter where they came from. Unless they’ve done something harmful then it’ll make sense. Otherwise it’s dehumanizing just to judge someone based off their biological aspects and where they came from if they haven’t done anything wrong.