Growing up as an American I had lots of opportunities, not only in extracurricular activities but in education as well. My parents’ made my childhood easy and wonderful and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. When I was a kid, I thought this is how everyone must grow up, enjoying their childhood, not having to worry about anything besides who to sit by at lunch or what game to play during recess. But for many American children of illegal immigration this is not the case, their worries are not worries of children, they’re worries of adults.
How Parents' Immigration Status Affects Kids' Education talks about how the parents’ immigration status, and their education level can then affect the education of their children, and how this effect can trickle down the generations. The children of unauthorized
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Growing up for him, he experienced how a lot of people talk negatively about himself, is culture, and his Mexican heritage. He says “You always hear about the bad things that immigrants have done, but never about the good.”, then says if people were to change the way they think about Mexican- American immigrants there would be an overall change in how people think about any immigrants. Gomez goes on to express that he never really felt fully accepted in his day to day life. As a child, he had to constantly live with knowing that when he gets home, his parents’ might not be there. A lot of kids in immigrant families worry about their parents’ getting deported on a daily basis, though no kid should have to worry about that, but for children like Gomez that’s their reality. He gives an example about how growing up, he felt like an outsider at school. Children in grade school shouldn’t have to worry about not fitting it, but because the negatives about immigrants are so publicized young kids see this and take this and form unjustified judgements at a very young