By: Lina Castillon
Imagine wanting to come to the U.S. to have a better chance for success. Knowing that even though making this change will be hard, but it will be for the better. Then when you finally get here, you’re called a “criminal”, “animal”, and somebody who “brings nothing but problems to this country.”
Being given these labels when all you’ve done is work hard to get where you are makes you think twice about the decisions you’ve made and if they were the best. These are the things Immigrants face almost every day.
Immigrants look for asylum over here because they might not feel safe back home, but at the same time, they don’t feel welcome here either.
On September 17 of this year, Public Radio International posted an article mentioning how the trump administration officials are “considering slashing refugee admissions for the fiscal year 2020 possibly to zero”, which means that he wants to cut down the number of people he’s giving asylums to by 2020.
Trump has cut refugee admissions from 110,000 down to 30,000. This affects immigrants because a lot may be looking for protection in the US yet are forced to stay in their country for this reason.
My father, Alfonso Castillon, an Immigrant in the U.S., said “Donald Trump has been trying to get rid of us since he first won the election but if you take a look we’re all still here. He blames us for the problems in the U.S. when in reality we’re just living our lives and he doesn’t know who else to blame.”
Most people want to come to the U.S. because their home countries are filled with poverty, violence, and gangs. If immigrants are denied asylum, all it will do is encourage them to enter the U.S. illegally, which is worse.
According to Maria Benevento, “About 2,800 asylum-seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador had been returned to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.”
Yessica Ceja, a student at Yerba Buena High School, said, “My parents brought me to the U.S. so I could have more opportunities in the future. I almost forget I’m an immigrant until opportunities come around and I can’t take advantage of them.”
In an Interview ABC made with Melania Trump, Melania said “I believe in the policies that my husband put together because I believe we need to be very vigilant with who’s coming to the country. I do believe that people should bring in their family from another country but we should know who they are.”
Many people come to the U.S. for better jobs, better schools, etc. But they can’t have that because they aren’t from here. I believe that if we give immigrants the opportunity to have that, we will all succeed. Why are they risking their lives so their children can have a better shot at success make them bad people?
According to the Center of Immigration Studies, Todd Lyons, an immigrant director, mentions how jails are introducing this new program called the 287(g) program, which “focuses on identifying those inmates at the classification level that are foreign-born.”
My mother, Laura Uribe, an immigrant says, “Whenever Trump has anything to say about us, I just try to ignore it. He thinks that the things he says about us will bring us down but his words don’t stop me from working hard.”
It’s sad how Donald Trump believes he will bring us down with the explicit things he says on social media and public platforms. While everyone is living their lives not giving a damn about him and he’s just wasting his breath.
Imagine wanting to come to the U.S. to have a better chance for success. Knowing that even though making this change will be hard, but it will be for the better. Then when you finally get here, you’re called a “criminal”, “animal”, and somebody who “brings nothing but problems to this country.”
Being given these labels when all you’ve done is work hard to get where you are makes you think twice about the decisions you’ve made and if they were the best. These are the things Immigrants face almost every day.
Immigrants look for asylum over here because they might not feel safe back home, but at the same time, they don’t feel welcome here either.
On September 17 of this year, Public Radio International posted an article mentioning how the trump administration officials are “considering slashing refugee admissions for the fiscal year 2020 possibly to zero”, which means that he wants to cut down the number of people he’s giving asylums to by 2020.
Trump has cut refugee admissions from 110,000 down to 30,000. This affects immigrants because a lot may be looking for protection in the US yet are forced to stay in their country for this reason.
My father, Alfonso Castillon, an Immigrant in the U.S., said “Donald Trump has been trying to get rid of us since he first won the election but if you take a look we’re all still here. He blames us for the problems in the U.S. when in reality we’re just living our lives and he doesn’t know who else to blame.”
Most people want to come to the U.S. because their home countries are filled with poverty, violence, and gangs. If immigrants are denied asylum, all it will do is encourage them to enter the U.S. illegally, which is worse.
According to Maria Benevento, “About 2,800 asylum-seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador had been returned to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.”
Yessica Ceja, a student at Yerba Buena High School, said, “My parents brought me to the U.S. so I could have more opportunities in the future. I almost forget I’m an immigrant until opportunities come around and I can’t take advantage of them.”
In an Interview ABC made with Melania Trump, Melania said “I believe in the policies that my husband put together because I believe we need to be very vigilant with who’s coming to the country. I do believe that people should bring in their family from another country but we should know who they are.”
Many people come to the U.S. for better jobs, better schools, etc. But they can’t have that because they aren’t from here. I believe that if we give immigrants the opportunity to have that, we will all succeed. Why are they risking their lives so their children can have a better shot at success make them bad people?
According to the Center of Immigration Studies, Todd Lyons, an immigrant director, mentions how jails are introducing this new program called the 287(g) program, which “focuses on identifying those inmates at the classification level that are foreign-born.”
My mother, Laura Uribe, an immigrant says, “Whenever Trump has anything to say about us, I just try to ignore it. He thinks that the things he says about us will bring us down but his words don’t stop me from working hard.”
It’s sad how Donald Trump believes he will bring us down with the explicit things he says on social media and public platforms. While everyone is living their lives not giving a damn about him and he’s just wasting his breath.