Obama/Clinton speak on Immigration Solutions

This is a video of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama discussing the immigration issue in the United States. They bring up some "solutions" and ways to reprimand violators of immigration laws in America.

In the beginning of the video, Hillary Clinton talks about the children that come home to no responsible parent. "That is not the 'America' she knows". America is the one that causes these kinds of situations to occur. Like we discussed in class, how can latino parents look after their children at the same time working two or more jobs just to survive. The American system (Cultural bias, discrimination, prejudice, etc.) does not allow for a latino, who may not be documented, to balance their life efficiently. Clinton talks about that it is against "American value". What are American values anyways? I see it as a way of comformity and reformation. When has it been against American value to work as hard as a person can to survive in a society that oppresses one's own people? We have talked about how if success was really based on how hard people worked, the makeup of our workforce and our class system would be completely different. Clinton does not take into consideration the racial and gender factors that these undocumented workers have to deal with. She talks about having some sort of "exception" for "egregious" situations. But, it is the societal system in the United States that creates these egregious situations. She does get it right that it is caused by the failure of the Federal Government.

They both do agree, as do I, that there needs to be some sort of stricter policy to prevent large companies and corporations to utilize undocumented workers as cheap labor. I agree that those undocumented immigrants who do get caught shouldn't be deported, but just thrown to the end of the line for naturalization. Barack Obama also makes a good point that those who have Latino or Hispanic surnames should not be targeted. But my question is, with the nature of our country, how that bias will be overlooked. It is so hard not to target a group of people because that is what this country does best. American culture creates perceptions and projects them onto people via media, and gives birth to prejudice and inequality.