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My opinion about these materials, the Interview with Marco Saavedra and Press Release, was interesting for me to read. I also found it unfair the long wait that Saavedra had to go through to have his political asylum. Something that seemed exciting and surprising to me was when he said in a part of the interview that it was easier for him when he infiltrated because he only had to talk to people, while the most challenging part was what they worked for the cases. What I liked the most was reading that finally, after such a long wait, Saavedra obtained his political asylum after such a long struggle. For me, the most unfair and sad was knowing that activists like Saavedra in Mexico kill them for their fight for human rights. It seems very unjust that the activities have to be afraid of being his native country because of what may happen to him and fear for his life. 

Questions for Marco Saavedra: 

1. How did you feel when you received the news that you already have political asylum?

2. What motivated you to be a human rights activist?

3. If you had an opportunity to change the migration system, what would this change be, what would you do, and why?

In my objective viewing of Interview with Marco Saavedra and Press Release is muddied with a semblance of frustration more than anything else. It makes no sense that a system that is meant to help assist in the process, going through each and every loop, double checking only for it to fly back in your face completely. When all these families are merely trying to make ends meet, to make a name for themselves, to get a slice of said American Dream now having to answer to a system that would leave them in the dust that has no consideration for said lives, morals or the struggles that which they have already taken to get where they are now.

The word “hero” to me came to mind more and more as I read these stories, what really qualifies you as a hero, someone who puts on a mask, who gives their lives to their nation, someone that does a random act of kindness qualify you. Being an activist for several years =, taking the amount of risks of his safety, his family and even his own friends and life, these are situations that one would never think imaginable but as they say “truth is stranger than any fiction”

Question 1 : What were some of the risks you originally thought before taking your first steps in this process, did any of them change or add on? How did you prepare yourself mentally or keep yourself mentally going through these hardships?

Question 2 : Is there any way we can spread awareness of this to help or are there any links to people in power that we can reach out to that are helping to make said difference that we can call or send emails to?

Immigrants had to abide by a narrow system and yet it is so broad and unjust when forcing them to adhere to its unfair specifications. The government expects people not to be able to stand up for themselves and are taken aback when they preform unprecedented things such as speaking English. They assume things about illegals which formulates an opinion determined by irrational stereotypes not by showmanship of perseverance and that is unfair. The opposition to the premise of innocent till proven guilty. People in other places cant trust the police so they feel like they’re migrating to something better only to realize that America is also corrupt.
People have a hypocritically infantile way of dealing with other people coming to their land. They target new immigrants even though they were once immigrants themselves. Marco was forced to abide by the rigorous systems rules and he had so much more to say, but after going through all the trouble to get to where he got to he didn’t want to ruin his chance by speaking up for himself and was forced to play the part. Don’t forget just keep remembering in order to not repeat the past. But since the past stories are so heard of and overused people are desensitized to them and expect something more when they really don’t need to. I agree with all of these arguments and think that because the people have a mass consumption of the media and their stories that they have stopped caring for anything unless its shown to affect them directly.

Questions:

1. Migrating from a place that is dangerous and unlivable only to realize that the place you’re migrating to could be just as dangerous should make people want to go elsewhere. My Question is, why not try and fix the problem in the homeland of these people rather than trying to establish a policy in one area for everyone and risking that supposed ‘haven’ becoming an overcrowded country.
2. Why doesn’t the US attempt to fix the living situations in the country where a majority of illegal immigrants come from?