The Dream Act- Extra Credit

The club Latino Student Union last week held an event named The Dream Act. This event was held after one of the seniors here at Whitworth had his story published in the Whitworthian. In his article Undocumented not Un-american. In his article he tells his story and lets us know why he is different from a lot of people here on campus. In the event we got a bigger insight of this. The Dream Act would allow undocumented students to apply for residency, if and only they were brought here at a young age and finished high school and is planning to attend a four or two year college. The process for this would take about six years. At the presentation we had a couple of guest speaker including two undocumented sisters who go to Eastern Washington university. They both told us their story. They told us that they were only five and three years old when they came to this country. They also told us about the different racial things people have told them. One of them mentioned "I'm sorry, but I did not chose to be brown, I did not chose to be this skin color". They told us thoughout their life they have been judged because of their race they always got stereotypical comments. She said that many people thought that only thing she ate were tacos and burritos. This brings me to point number three in Critical Theory: Race is social and not biological construction. As Americans we all do this. We tend to think that certain races do certain things.

Another of the speakers was Luis, the author of the article. He shared with us his struggles. He mentioned that he indeed will graduate from Whitworth but most likely will not be able to use his degree. The only thing he will be able to do is work at Mc Donalds or other low paying jobs. If the Dream Act does not get passed again he will not have a shot at completing the American dream. Everyday Luis lives with fear because he knows that in any minute or second he can be deported and all his hard work will be thrown out the window.