Border War

I chose to respond to a recent documentary we watched in class. Border War is a collection of stories related to the Border and illegal immigration. These stories ranged from Immigration officers daily lives to a woman who’s parents ran a safe house. The story that affected myself the most was the story of the woman who lived in a safe house. During her childhood when her father ran this, she was subjected to sexual advances from fifty year-old men and her family splitting up. Because of her childhood she became quite bitter towards illegal immigrants. Even though she was a Mexican American, she was anavid supporter of a stiff border, and she even joined the minutemen club. The main thing that disturbed me about this story is that during a rally, Illegals protested that they had a right to be here. I have no problem with immigrants that come here legally, but when someone comes illegally and expects to mooch off of our government I become quite angry. These people were saying that they had a right to be here, but there points of argument have no backing. One said that since this land used to belong to Mexico (it hasn’t owned it since 1848) they still had the right to live here. Another argument was that they could live there because Santa Ana sold it too cheaply and that it should still be there’s. The problem with this argument is that we also bought land from other countries and there people don’t think they can just move here without being documented. All in all this documentary made me quite upset and ruined my entire day.