...Are Immigrants Stealing U.S. Jobs? Are Immigrants Stealing U.S. Jobs? Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans, deals with the ignorance of Americans about immigrants, Mexicans especially, coming to the U.S. and stealing jobs from American workers. Baca has another piece of literature that touches on the same subject called, Immigrants in Our Own Land. Undocumented workers are a growing problem here in the U.S., but the claim that illegal immigrants are taking U.S. citizen’s jobs is simply not true. Immigrants come to America with the hopes of living the American dream. They seek opportunities that are not available to them in their home country. Most of these people have a hard time finding that opportunity to live a better life. The jobs that Mexican immigrants do find are almost always jobs that Americans won’t take because they feel they are too good for the job. Mexican immigrants want a better standard of living so they will take any job available or that is offered to them. As a result, they take labor-intensive jobs and work for cheap wages, while the rest of the unemployed American population sits on their butts living off welfare. Mexicans are being treated unfairly for just trying to make better lives for themselves and their families. Americans are blaming immigrants and undocumented workers for their problems in not being able to find a job. Instead, we need to look in the mirror and understand how lazy and ignorant...
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...to read and write. Jimmy Baca the author of “Coming into Language”, not only learned how to read as a young adult but undertook this goal in an inadequate environment. Through a poetic perspective, Jimmy Baca’s isolation lead him to a reborn self. Baca utilizes tone and understatement to help express his journey through his multiple transformations. Baca’s limitations left him feeling trapped and insecure, which affected him long term. From the age of seven Baca had been not only ridiculed but also punished by his teacher’s in school. Teachers would have him stick his nose “in a circle chalked on the blackboard” as punishment for not knowing the lesson plans (53). This constant embarrassment left him in an isolated state of confusion. He explains that he is “Ashamed of not understanding and fearful of asking questions” (53). These insecurities left him in the dark when if came to learning. Due to his unhealthy experiences in school he felt the only thing left to do was to drop out. Dropping out in the ninth grade took a major toll in his life; in the sense that he could still not read at the age of seventeen. Being a young adult and still unable to read Baca was unable to express himself. This humiliating was the start of his downfall. Understatement is used to express Baca’s first transformation to a state of interest literature. In a casual understatement Baca explains that he used to work at St. Joseph’s Hospital, a place where he would mop “up pools of blood and carting plastic...
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