Natalie Peguero
English 112 Section 45
Prof. Mayers
November 20, 2013 Aren’t we all equal?

One of the most controversial topics today in America is immigration. Should they be deported? Or should they be given a chance for a better future? Immigrants go through abuse daily, they are treated unequal and as minority. Some immigrants’ are given the chance to work; they work hard but are treated and paid miserably. Even the health care provided to immigrants is sometimes cruel because of where they come from.
Undocumented immigrants are abused all the time and because of their illegal crime the mistreatment is thought to be acceptable, but they aren’t the only ones that are being mistreated. Documented immigrants also go through harm of the government and society. Legal immigrants are treated different because of their inability of speaking English, or speaking with an accent. Many Americans’ seem to believe that just because somebody doesn’t speak English as they do, they don’t deserve to be treated as equal. In “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez you can see how he as child was treated different. Rodriguez being raised in Sacramento, California by Mexican Immigrants had difficulty with the English language and growing up in the society he lived in. Immigrants are mistreated in the daily basis just because of where they come from. They are unequally paid, made fun of, looked down on, treated differently and even those services that should be provided to everyone equally are refused. Several Americans feel a sense of power over immigrant; power that leads them to look down on immigrants. Just because someone comes from a different country or talks differently from you does not give you the right to treat them different or look down on them like if they were something less of you. Immigrants are told to learn English because is the