People Skool @ POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE Presents
“Who is an Immigrant/ Quien es Immigrante?” by Everette Middle School Youth Skolas
1: Who is an Immigrant/Migrant? (write what you think an immigrant is.)
2: Write a story or draw a picture of the place your ancestors immigrated /migrated from.
3: Can a human being be “illegal” or “legal”?
Yaria
1: People who come from different places or different states.
2: I think India and Africa
3: No, because sometimes some people just say that people are illegal to make them feel bad. I think all human beings are legal.
Danelia Mendieta
1: an immigrant is a person who crosses the border to get better jobs and money to raise their families.
2: My ancestor immigrated from Nicaragua to America so they can have a better life and be treated better and not be slaves and they can get money so they can raise their little ones and their family.
3: I think a human being should not be illegal because it doesn’t make sense because they’re not stealing anything, they’re just trying to make their life better and have freedom.
Jhoaris Menjivar
1: An immigrant is a person from another country that crossed the border to work for this country. A person to find a better life in America.
2: My ancestors come from central America, from El Salvador. My country is a very poor country. That is why they came to America to have a better lie and to work and to give their children a better education.
3: Every human being I guess is legal. Because even though the rules in America say some people are illegal, we aren’t.
Katie
1: They cross the border from Sweden, they leave their home to go to the U.S.
2: I am mixed with almost everything. I am half country girl and half city girl. My family crossed the border from Sweden to the U.S. I am part gipsy (Romanies) before the Jewish people. We had won with the Germans and I am also part German
3: WE HAVE RIGHTS!
Izzy
1: People who can’t afford stuff for their family to where they can’t survive in their own country so they move to rich countries, for example the U.S.
2: Mexico, Italy, Honduras, and Greece. I am Mexican, Italian, Honduran, and Greek.
3: No, but some people in their earlier days thought since they found a country to live in, other people who were a different color or race they shouldn’t be allowed to live with others that are different. They thought they were more important and rich and not poor.
Eulalia
1: Someone who is making up another word to make others feel bad.
2: unanswered
3:I think a human can be legal is being human means we can be different it deserves to be legal but is being human means we’re not different it deserves to be illegal.
Mach M
1: An immigrant is someone who travels somewhere away from their home to find a better place to live.
2:a: My dad migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. He crossed the border. Traveled a long way while he was just a teenager. He came by himself on foot with just 2 gallons of water and a few dollars in his pocket. San Salvador
b: My mother came to the U.S. at the age of 17 from the Philippines. She came here on a boat across the Pacific Ocean. Manila
3: Yes, if a person doesn’t have legal papers stating they are a citizen. They can be illegal if the person doesn’t have the right “paperwork”.