WETBACK DOCUMENTARY

I have watched a documentary on men that have tried to come to the United states form places like Honduras, Nicaragua and many other Central American areas. This documentary informs us about their journey, what they go thru, the things they eat, the struggle and their heart aches as they make this journey. In the documentary it showed many injured men. It showed people that have tried helping them once they were injured or when they needed it. It shows Border Patrol agents and thier views on this issue. There also were some civilians and what they thought about immigration and what they were doing about it. In the end I think that this video helped me better understand the struggles each person goes thru on their journey to America.



In the beggingin the video shows a two men comming form Honduras. They have to immigrate to two different places. It is specially hard for them because not only Americans are hurtful to them, Mexicans are also hurtful. They have to struggle double. When they went in thier journey in the beggening they seemed kind of layed back, very sure of themselve. I thought that it was kind of increadible that they seemed that way becasue well I am pretty sure that they had heard many stories about what happens ove there. Well that is how they were. They had a few things like a backpack i think. Then they said that they jumped into the train with other men. They did not think much of the men becasue they thought that they were also just trying to go to the U.S. Once they were up there, the men than told them to strip and give them all their money. One of the men had his money in his pants, they were hidden. But surprisingly they found it. The other guy had his money in his private parts and the men still found it. I think that it is so curel how they rob form the porest people. They did not do anything to them. What i also hate is that you cant even trust the police. They wont all help you some of them even hurt you. In the end of the video it said both of the men went backto Honduras. One of them got his job back and the other did not.

There was this one story that really made me very sad. I dont reamember where the lady was comming form but she was injured. She stayed in one of the houses were they help you out and give you food until you bet better and go on wiht your journey. There are many people in those houses. Well she was very helpful around there, she would cook and clean. The man that was telling her story said that she was a great person. Well he said that one day she thanked him and said that she was going to leave, she wanted to finish her journey, She wanted to reach America. So she left and them months later she called him and told her about her journey. She told him that she did reach America. Once she was in America she felt so happy she could not explain it. But as soon as she stepped into american soil, she heard a man telling her to put her hands in back of ther head and to walk back. It was a border patrol. She told the man that she wanted him to shoot her. She wanted to die in america. She wanted the children she left behind that her mother died in America. She wanted them to know that she had made it. The officer than let her go, he said leave women i have never seen you. the woman was calling the man from a payphone in Amercia.

To me that was a very sad and wonderful story becasue she was willing to die just as long as she dies in america. If many americans heard this story and looked at it in my perspective, they would see that these people risk everything to get a job here. Most of these people worship this nation wile some of our citizens destroy it. It is unbeliveable that they would call these immigrants bad people when some of them are willing to die just so they are able to say that they reached America.