Everyday hundreds of starving, poor, and oppressed people begin a road to survival. These immigrants travel through a road filled with trappers, thieves, and crooked authorities. During the documentary we watched I began to realize how difficult Latinos and Central Americans lives really were. The economic situation in Central American countries is out of control, even in the United States we still do not understand that these illegal immigrants must break American law to continue to survive.
I only recently began to realize what important ethical issues were presented in this documentary. In the documentary it showed us the story of two men on the road to the United States from Nicaragua. They travel with little or no money because of the lack of employment in their homelands. During their travels they experience problems around the way. They get robbed by vigilante gangs in Mexico who rob them of all their money and break their spirits.
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United StatesThey also encounter the Mexican police who are very corrupt and prey on these illegal immigrants because of increasing pressure from a terrorist fearful United States.
Only a few make it to the Rio Grande river and successfully enter the United States and still they risk being discovered by vigilante border patrol or other authorities. Once they are in the United States they will obtain fake social security cards and begin to look for work. I was so surprised to learn that these undocumented workers pay about six billion dollars in social securities and taxes that they will never benefit from. The amount of oppression is overwhelming for the immigrants. The amount of human suffering is close to the amount that occurred during the holocaust. But still the human race chooses to ignore this growing problem. I thought it was so ironic that...