“Give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am not a rapist, I am not a drug dealer, and I am not a criminal. Not my skin color, not my religion, not my ethnicity, or a paper determines who I am. My motivation, my dreams, and my goals determine who I am and what I want. I am a son, a brother, a human; I am an immigrant whose only goal is to get a better life and a better future for myself and for my family. I am not only speaking for myself, I am speaking for the millions of illegal immigrants who are living in the shadows in the land of the “freedom”. Today my future and the future of thousands of people are undecided, not because we want it, but because a law tags us as criminals, which only crime has been …show more content…
It is hard to see how other people judge us just for our appearance but not for what we think or for whom we are. It is hard to live dealing with hate every single moment, to live day by day with a fear consuming our feeling, a fear stopping us from our dreams. Today, with my heart and with the heart of millions of illegal immigrants in my hands I want to ask all of you for your help, to help our brothers and sisters get a better life, to build a wall against hate and racists; to stop the flow of massive injustice, to think for better ways to help us “illegal immigrants” who we are asking for help and nothing else. As an immigrant, my main goal is to keep the integrity of this country intact, to keep the great country’s values. I can only make my speech this way, to ask for your help, to ask for better decisions against us, to think twice before making a law, to give us an opportunity. I can only ask you for help because I know you have the power to make a difference in our lives. No matter our culture, no matter our color, no matter our language, if we are Hispanics or Muslims, we all are brothers and