Border Justice Week

The Crossing & American Latino Redux

During Migration, Justice and Borders week I went to see the Crossing's play and “American Latino Redux”.  Both plays were very good but I had a hard time following the "American Latino Redux"  It seems to have jumped around a little bit or they just showed a part of the play that needed a little more explaining before showing it to us.  The crossing was extremely good.  I had my attention the entire time.  The ending was extremely sad though. 

The play “American Latino Redux” related to the class in the way that it talked about how a latino was trying to fit in under the American standards but was having a difficult time doing this.  The character had many personalities and each one was telling him to do different things. This makes you wonder how hard it really is to change everything that you used to do just to fit in with the place where you live.

 The Crossing’s Play was the most dramatic.  It told a story about how people try and cross the deserts between the United States and Mexico every day.  The play focused on how the immigrants would rather die then have to go back to the home country.  The conditions that they live in are so bad that the immigrants are so desperate that they risk there lives to cross hundreds of miles through the desert just to find work in the United States.  The play focused on a young female that had lost her sister in the desert and everyone else that she was traveling with when she was found by the Border Patrol.  Instead of letting them take her back to Mexico she choose to die.

It is hard to comprehend why people are willing to sacrifice so much to have what we take for granted.  But people try to escape there homeland everyday some will make it and other pay the ultimate price with there life.

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