Why Do Illegal Immigrants Enter South America

Wetbacks followed people from south America and Mexico trying to illegally enter the United States. Due to their social location or, the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society, they are subjected to conditions here in America we would never experience. Ana’s father could no longer afford to pay for tuition for her schooling so she had to be pulled from the 7th grade. In the US, school up through high school is free because with federal and state taxes we can afford to pay for free and universal primary education. This is something people outside of the United states have to deal with just because, of where they were born. They are labeled as illegal and they are followed around by the stigma of being ‘thugs’. They are abused and robbed by gangs such as MS13. They cannot even report this to the police, because …show more content…
These people are not the drug smuggling rapist some make them out to be. They re just normal people who are not privileged enough in their own country to find a job that will pay them enough to survive. The generalization of these people causes more conflict than them illegally entering actually does. This document highlights the struggle between the capitalist and the working class. Marx believed that society is made up of two classes the bourgeoisie, those who own the means of production, and the proletariat, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production. The illegal immigrants are the proletariats they are kept down by the competition created by capitalism. A lot of people who do not like the immigrants are proletariats also. The bourgeois create this false sense of conflict and competition with them to keep the numbers divided. The two groups of the working class are too busy hating and fighting each other to realize that they are more similar than not and they are both just trying to make it in a capitalist