In general Mexican Americans born in the US North of San Antonio know very little Spanish. On top of that, Mexican nationals tend to view Mexican Americans as traitors for not wanting to be part of Mexico. Imagine being deported like this.
Ive been here exactly 25 years and the thought of having to go back to where I came for makes me want to puke. I have very few ties and absolutely no idea what the culture is like or how to navigate the infrastructure. Over time it just feels like a death sentance.
I imagine too many people, too old to properly learn Spanish for instance, and they are deported.
How are they going to manage adapting to school? To high school? What if they want to attend college in their respective countries? I know for a fact that depending on the place, they wouldn't qualify. A scholarship? Good luck with that, I think it was UNAM that said they wouldn't have enough room to accommodate Dreamers trying to sign up, correct me if I'm wrong.
Then let's say they are old enough to want to teach English in Puebla, or Mexico City. I hear they give priority to Americans, because they were born in the US and have proper pronunciation and diction and whatever. Fucking hell.
Might as well get a job doing whatever just to pay the damn bills and be able to eat tortillas. Some of my relatives with business of their own have a hard enough time doing that, I mean, that's why people leave everything behind to try their luck here. Unlike coal country that wants the jobs to come to them.
Those are obstacles that I image can be surmounted, eventually, and with luck. Lot of luck. And I remember the humiliation and how hard it was at 12 to learn English to get out into "normal" classes, then honor classes and then AP classes. Then I think about anyone sent back that has to relearn Spanish, and then throw away all progress made here in the States.
"The President encourages legal immigration"
While he supported some bullshit bill cutting legal immigration in half?
For real.
I don't believe, but damn do I pray for those people. Dreamers, refugees, immigrants.
