Summer Blog Post 2

This blog post will be in the form of a newspaper article from the point of view of an immigrant Mexican protesting against Donald Trump’s speech.

I have recently heard that Donald Trump has announced that he is running for the 2016 presidential elections. In his presidential election announcement speech, he basically targeted every race except the white. I emigrated from Mexico when I was 11 years old with my parents. I am now 22 years old and work as a construction worker. While watching this speech, I heard an entire group of people, my people, be generalized and reduced to drug lords, rapists, and criminals. My drug is my work. I work every day for 12 hours nonstop. I do not have time to rape or distribute drugs. I do not understand how a man can run for president of a country if he does not acknowledge the backbone of that country. Mr. Trump, who do you think builds your beach houses and fixes your sports cars and serves you at your 5 star restaurants? I would hope that they are not rapists or criminals. Being in the 21^st century, I assumed that stupid and ignorant generalizations were something of the past. I assumed that we can stop categorizing one country negatively because of the actions of a few. In one of Mr. Trumps later speeches, he proclaimed Mexico as “the enemy”. As far as I know, Mexico and the United States are not enemies. This country would be in absolute ruins if it is handed to someone who is not aware of simple politics and attempts to implement his ignorant and right wing opinion on the general public.