Earlier this week House
Speaker John Boehner announced that the House would not be considering
immigration reform this year. President Obama, earlier this year, said that
immigration reform would be something that would come to light before the
year’s up, but the House replies that there simply not enough time to enact
something expansive enough to cover all aspects of citizenship. In fact it
seems like the US is working in opposition to this aspired equality.
This article states
that last year President Obama deported over 400,000 people, tearing families
apart and also creating more means for protest and activism on behalf of
immigrants. On June 25 the Supreme Court shut down the Voting Rights Act, which
allowed states like Texas to reinstate the strict voter ID laws, ultimately
restricting immigrants from voting who are citizens but don’t have the correct
ID to be able to vote. A chain reaction across the United States has occurred
where more voter ID laws and "show me your papers” accusations are becoming
reinforced.
These laws are more
constrictive to our citizens of color and many are comparing this to the
discrimination given when citizenship was first granted and the eligibility to
vote was given. It seems that once a rung is acquired in the latter to equality
the US finds a way to demolish that progress by taking care of another issue.
The article also
touches on the American Dream and I think it's funny that the American Dream is
so tangible to some but nobody really understands what it is. It also seems
that the funnel to get the American Dream is so narrow, you have to fit all of
these qualifications in order to even consider for yourself that you’re living
the American Dream. I feel when something has so many qualifiers and many
people aspiring to obtain it, but the “it” the “dream,” the concept of it is cloudy
and unclear, that it no longer becomes a dream, but more so a myth. Where all
trying to live the American Folklore.
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