Brenda Lizet Hernandez: An Immigrant

“As long as you try, you can accomplish so many things,” Brenda expresses. The young, intelligent, diligent worker, known as Brenda Lizet Hernandez was born January 26, 1995, in Anaheim California. Even as a young girl, Brenda received many challenges, but that didn’t stop her from facing her dreams, and aspirations. These challenges have molded her to the strong, young, beautiful woman she is now. She strives every day to create a successful life for herself and her family. Coming home from work every day exhausted with her dark brown hair falling down her back and her black handbag that weighs over her strong shoulder, she tries to tell her opinion on immigration as she makes a cup of coffee to stay awake. She’s an inspiration to all the

treats immigrants. She replies with how every immigrant has a voice that just not everybody sees, and at the end of the day are just trying to better their future. Brenda believes that immigrants make the U.S who they are now. She states a lot about how immigrants have a copious amount of things to bring to the U.S. Brenda demonstrates that although there are many people who frown upon immigrants, they are human beings just trying to better their life and their family's life as well. She believes that the people who are very egoistic and full of themselves are the ones that don’t like immigrants. Brenda mainly explains that it's the people who always look at the negative side of things, and are the ones bringing all the false evidence of how we bring terrorism, drugs, violence, etc. “People like this are always assuming this about everybody,” she explains. Not many people can see the good in immigrants and with her background, she can tell that immigrants are not bad at all. She uses our parents as an example of how they risked their life coming to the United States and can represent how good immigrants can really

benefits from immigrants. She began to state on how immigrants bring not only their ideas and work to the U.S., but also all the diversity they bring. Immigrants bring their culture to this country. Not only that, but immigrants also take up low paying jobs that Americans won’t take. Many people believe that immigrants are taking people’s jobs, but it's not about that. They take any job that they can take regardless of the conditions that Americans won't volunteer to take. Americans understand the conditions of the jobs and that there are responsibilities that they won’t take upon themselves to do. Then immigrants step in and demonstrate that “we’re here to make a mark and a living regardless of the conditions because at the end of the day we’re just trying to provide for our family.” They’re here to have a shelter over their head, a roof. “They’re consumers to this