American isn’t the land of opportunity for everyone. For some, it is a land of confusion and mixed messages.
I am speaking of the children of illegal immigrants who were not born in this country. Walk a mile in their moccasins. Often, those kids have citizen brothers and sisters, to add insult to injury. Their brothers and sisters do not share their problems. These kids live in no man’s land. they live in America. They feel like Americans. They go to school and pledge allegiance daily to the red, white and blue flag flying in front of them. They are Americans in every way except one and that is the paperwork.
From here on out note I am referring to Latino kids. Yes, there are other kids but my focus is on the Hispanic population today. Many nay-sayers want to “send them home.” What does this really mean? Most of these kids speak fluent Spanish. We assume that they can also read it. Most cannot. They can read and write English very well but they cannot read Spanish. They also can’t spell in Spanish. It’s not something you think about. Unless they have been taught, it just isn’t something intuitive. So where do they go?
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