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Jeff Dozier

FYS100

June 26, 2014

Harold Blanco

Reaction to the Dream Act Podcast

The Dream Act Podcast on Black Board is a podcast by BBC, which is the British Broadcast

Company. The podcast discusses lives of different Hispanics across America and partly talks about what

the effects that these Hispanics have on their areas and American culture in general. At a thirty-six

minutes long it is quite informative.

The main focus of this podcast takes us to Aurora, Colorado. Firstly we talk to a Hispanic woman

who runs a hair salon and lives a better life than what she used to. Her hair salon only hires Hispanics

and she has two kids who are both focus on school. We also hear from the mayor who knew three

Hispanics soldiers who fought for our country and that is how he remembers Hispanics. Next we get to

hear from a minister at a Roman-Catholic church which was founded by white Americans but over the

years has become equally Hispanic and white, and eventually could just be Hispanic. There are two

millennials in the podcast that are Dreamers as well who were brought here when they were no older

than two years old. If they were to be deported it would be to a place they don’t even know (because

America has been all they’ve known their whole life). There are also many other individuals in the

podcast as well as discussion about the growing demographic of Latinos, taxes, and culture.

I believe that there is no real problem with these people or passing the Dream Act. It is

something we need to do along with comprehensive immigration reform. Just like not only any other

Americans, but even non-Hispanic immigrants, there are some bad people. However, a very large

majority are just normal people with a dream like any American and deserve that chance. All Americans

are immigrants excluding Native Americans, so why are all these American people so worried about

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“keeping these immigrants out of our country”? WE ARE IMMIGRANTS – that is what formed this

country to what it is today, but unfortunately just because most of the immigrants from the southern

border don’t speak English it’s somehow a bad thing. I would just say to opponents of the Dream Act

there are other non-English speaking immigrants that don’t speak Spanish, and we need to help

everyone (not just a select few).