With so much discussion regarding the terms of immigration reform, the actual discuss of reform for the immigrants sake has been lost in nothing but political rhetoric. Rather than focusing on the people who deserve a chance to be here, it appears almost as though the focus on creating tighter security at the U.S.-Mexican border is taking precedence. One lady who shared her story with the Huffington Post, shares that she has spent the majority of her life along that very border, and while the government seems to only be addressing the criminals and the drug lords or even dependents on public welfare; they are forgetting that there are many good people in the midst as well. In fact, Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño claims that along those borders she finds that the majority of the people are simply hard-working individuals who have a deep love for family, spirituality, and the common good of the people. Carcaño points out that these people are simply just struggling because of the poverty of their country, which is rather a reflection on the economy and welfare of their own country rather than the person in general. Not only that, but their poverty has even been affected because of agreements made by the U.S. both nationally and globally.

Carcaño brings up a good point, that in the midst of all the political unrest, the immigrants and their families are being forgotten and negatively affected. One of the examples she gives is regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement that was made for corn farmers in Mexico, which in the end caused over 2 million Mexican farmers as well as their families to be without work and impoverished. She shares of an experience she had in the past as she discussed the effects of the NAFTA corn farming agreement with an Iowa Senator who was working on immigration reform. Carcaño claims that she discussed that so many Mexicans were present in the United States because they lost work due to the trade agreement and could not make enough to feed their families. Sadly, the senator responded in a patronizing manner claiming that those in the U.S. held no responsibility for the economic woes that Mexico was experiencing.

When it comes to immigration, many people re here as immigrants because they care about their families and are seeking to provide even the smallest of incomes in order to help sustain them. Sadly, the government currently sees this as "not their problem" as the Iowa senator so boldly shard with Carcaño. In the midst of so much discussion on immigration and reform, and the fight to help the people, the people are the ones who are being forgotten. Carcaño shares that because of the actions of the ICE, there are so many young children of immigrants who live in fear one day to day basis, wondering if the government is going to take away their parents and send them back home. Even worse, these young people who spend their entire life in the United States after coming here at a very young age are being told that they don't belong, even though this is the country they love and have hope in. Their lives have been invested in the United States, and yet so many feel as though they do not have a home because the topic of immigration reform has not yet been resolved.

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