Joselin Mejia, A 2022 Pedro J. Rodriguez High School Scholarship Winner’s Essay
By Joselin Mejia
What would you do if you were a president to help emigrant people ? If I were a president I would do so many things to help emigrant people.
First I would like to provide health insurance for them because health is the first important thing. If we are not healthy we are not available to do all the work that we do every day. There are so many people who don’t have insurance and they have to spend too much money to go to the doctor and check how healthy they are. Sometimes they just buy medicine and medicate themselves, and I would like to change that situation especially for minors.
Secondly I would like to change the work conditions. Some jobs don’t pay them the money that they should give them just because they are an emigrant. They discriminate you and give you hard work. I would like to make a law that protects emigrants and makes equality in their jobs so that way the owners or boss would be fair to emigrants. We deserve better opportunities in all ways because we all are equal, no one is different and emigrants need better job opportunities.
Finally, I would provide education for all emigrants so they would learn the language and they will not have difficulties because in American know English is one of the most important things. I would give the opportunity to those who want to be better and want to go to school. Sometimes emigrant people want to go to the school but it is difficult to them go to the school just because we are emigrants and schools ask for so many requirements or papers. If I were president I would give the opportunity to emigrants to go to school and also I would create a program where emigrants people can apply and go to college or university and the government would pay for them to go to college.
I am a emigrant, I came to America to get a better future, I came here to improve myself, to be a professional and then help my family. All immigrants came to America to make a dream come true but sometimes we don’t have the opportunity just because we are emigrants. I would like to change some things for all emigrants and I would give the opportunity to those immigrants who work hard to get a better future for them and their families.