“When I grow up I'm going to be a person who fights for this country. I'm going to be an important person. I'm going to a good college… I'm going to fight for [people]… I want them to come to me and say, 'Thank you.' I want to be a lawyer.” Mayra, a fifth-grade student from a high-poverty school in Los Angeles, is one of the central figures in Laura Angelica Simón's Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary. Mayra lives in a small apartment with her mother and uncle, both undocumented immigrants from El Salvador. Like many of the students and parents of Hoover Elementary, a school in Pico Union (often described as the Ellis Island of Los Angeles), Mayra fears the ramifications of California's Proposition 187, which denies health care and public education to undocumented immigrants.
-http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/reviews/f-fear.html

In class we discussed the struggles the Mexicans have had while entering America. Many of the troubles exist simply because they are undocumented and therefore found to be illeagal. This has created man tensions. American citizens are upset because they are forced to pay taxes, taxes in which give undocumented children school, food, and healthcare. Above is a quote about the movie Hoover Elemetnary that we watched in class. It focused on illegal immigrants and the Proposition 187. This propositon was passed.
Walls and Mirrors discusses how the close immigration has reemerged as one of the most divisive controveries in American politics. With many of the troubles that our nation is experiencing, we was citizens and politicians vent out our frustrations on immigrants. We throw all the pointing those crossing the border illegally and blame them for our economic troubles. In the epologue the author says, "the nation is simultaneously experiencing a deep economic recession, increasing political polarization, and a frightening increase in ethnic and racial tensions, many Americans are again venting their frustrations about U.S. immigration policy and about the many cultural issues that immigration has helped to inject into national politics.
This all makes you wonder, is immigration causing certain problems that politicians say they are? Or our we simply hitting a devistating economic fall that has nothing to with immigrants, but yet we need them to blame everything on?