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Summary Of So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Imagine a world where people come into your cities and take your jobs without you getting a choice. Out of nowhere your source of income is gone. The poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” attacks that point of view of from a Mexican perspective. Jimmy Santiago Baca is the writer of the poem. He reflects on his Chicano and Apache heritage throughout the poem defending the Mexican people. This is a heated topic in the media even to this day. I believe that the poem was narrow minded and does not represent how we as Americans feel. The poem uses creative way to get his point of view across to the reader. He uses extreme scenarios to argue his said. Baca says, “do they come on horses with rifles, and say, ese, gringo, take off your
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