Problems With Immigrantion

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-real-problem-immigration-and-the-real-solution


Immigrant should be handle properly without the harm and the violence but to find a better solution between the two sides. Because at the end of the day we are all humans of this planet.  It shouldn't cause people their lives to come here. We should all free some type of freedom when coming to the US.

Art Spiegelman's "A Warm Welcome," 2015. CreditPortrait by Phil Penman.

 I first saw the Statue of Liberty in October 1950 while perched high on my father’s shoulders. My parents, survivors of Hitler’s death camps, had been granted immigration visas to the United States, and all the passengers were crowded on the foredeck of the Gripsholm as we approached the harbor. I was less than 3 years old when my father excitedly pointed at the giant lady standing in the water to welcome us to New York. I was suitably awed until we got closer and was disappointed to see that she was “just” a statue.

Edel Rodriguez's “Strangers,” 2018.CreditPortrait by Deborah Feingold

Boat people, that’s what many immigrants are considered. I was one of them, a refugee. I understand that welcoming strangers can be dangerous. Throughout history, many countries have sent their best, as well as their worst, to the United States. Irish gangs and the Italian Mafia, among many other criminal groups, flourished here soon after their arrival. We have always lived with the dangers of accepting foreigners, and we have always dealt with them, knowing that those are the risks a country must assume if it is to be a beacon to the entire world. This country now seems scared to take risks on foreigners, to bet on the possibility that the next boat full of strangers might be full of greatness. 

by Eleazar Velazquez

My artwork takes a critical view of social, identity and cultural issues. In my work, I deconstruct the American dream, for an Undocumented Child in search of his identity. I engage the subject in a kneeling position, a symbol of being afraid to show his identity. In the artwork America is split off from Mexico to represent the borderlands of two cultures. The color red represents the struggles to identity. Bold text in the piece is represented on the Dreamer and throughout the drawing to symbolize the power of words. I am undocumented, it is my identity. In the drawing the main theme is a journey to find an identity. When people see my piece I want them to relate to the struggle of finding an identity. The identity in the piece is, I am Mexican the origin, Undocumented the circumstance, American the future.