Freedom the ultimate reason any person from any given country comes to the United States. Although, freedom seems to be hard to come by when you’re a person with no legal status in the US. The film “Papers” talks of youths as the grown into adulthood who go through the challenges that not many people face as us citizens. Current citizens find it easier to graduate school and attended places for further education, find decent paying jobs, and even drive. We may overlook the fact that things come to us so easily, for an undocumented person it’s harder, but it’s even harder on their children. A child of an undocumented person may have traveled to this country as a baby or toddler, yet as they grow older they face an imminent threat of being deported
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The problem that this film presents is that the United States needs to update their Immigration Policy to help alleviate some of the freedoms they are refused such as a driver’s license or a work permit. The DREAM Act is what keeps most youths have hope for any future in the United States. An applicant will no longer need to fear deportation after receiving legal documentation from the government, which can be done by either joining the army or furthering their …show more content…
Is it relevant? Is there a significance? Due to the current presidential debates, the Immigration Policy in the United States will always be a relevant matter. The significance of this film is to open the viewer 's perspective of the hardships any undocumented youth faces as they grow into adulthood. We are a nation of immigrants with the exception of the native American Indians. we imposed on a land that wasn 't ours; Men and women, along with their children came to this land seeking refuge and freedom. Nobody knew what was to be of this land, especially the children, they were just taken along for the journey. Given that same perspective, undocumented people came here seeking the same as we did long ago, their children were taken along for the journey, and they did not know any better. However, we justify that all illegal immigrants should go back to their places of origin, but these children should not be held accountable for the actions their parents took to give them a better life. Everyone deserves life, liberty, and happiness, after all, it 's written in our
The problem that this film presents is that the United States needs to update their Immigration Policy to help alleviate some of the freedoms they are refused such as a driver’s license or a work permit. The DREAM Act is what keeps most youths have hope for any future in the United States. An applicant will no longer need to fear deportation after receiving legal documentation from the government, which can be done by either joining the army or furthering their …show more content…
Is it relevant? Is there a significance? Due to the current presidential debates, the Immigration Policy in the United States will always be a relevant matter. The significance of this film is to open the viewer 's perspective of the hardships any undocumented youth faces as they grow into adulthood. We are a nation of immigrants with the exception of the native American Indians. we imposed on a land that wasn 't ours; Men and women, along with their children came to this land seeking refuge and freedom. Nobody knew what was to be of this land, especially the children, they were just taken along for the journey. Given that same perspective, undocumented people came here seeking the same as we did long ago, their children were taken along for the journey, and they did not know any better. However, we justify that all illegal immigrants should go back to their places of origin, but these children should not be held accountable for the actions their parents took to give them a better life. Everyone deserves life, liberty, and happiness, after all, it 's written in our