Legal Alien Summary

In "legal alien people", the poet Pat Mora explores the cultural tension that exists in the lives of Mexican Americans. Speakers of this poem will describe bicultural individuals who are proficient in English and Spanish and are using both languages ​​in their daily lives and social life. This person is a standard office work and frequent visits to Mexican food restaurants. However, it is difficult for individuals to be fully accepted by the community. Americans think that this person is "exotic", "inferior", "completely different", the Mexican people are "aliens" and I think they are outsiders. As a result, individuals are seen as a symbol of dual cultural experience that exists only at the edge of the two cultural worlds from the society's perspective. To protect yourself, individuals present external fronts to hide biased pain. Therefore, individuals are actually "legal foreigners" - people are not yet completely accepted by society

Mora will use Mexican Americans as the subject of this poem and he / she will represent the collective experience of Mexican Americans. This poem is written in 22 different lines of poetry without rhyming. Mora uses English in parallel with English to emphasize the tension in her life. When asked as "individual" in English, he / she answers "Me'stan volviendo loca" in Spanish. . Mora also employs opponents to emphasize cultural tension in personal experience as an interpersonal factor, "Americans" and "Mexicans".

"Legal Aliens" appeared in Mora's poetry "Chants" published by Arte Publico Press in 1984. In this series, the theme of many poems is related to the various cultural experiences of the people living in the desert areas of the southwest United States of America. Chant was awarded the Harvey L. Johnson Book Award by the Southwest Latin American Research Council in 1984 and was awarded the Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library in 1985. As an author of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and literature for children, Pat Mora has been a spokesperson for Mexican-American experience.

"(1) Criminal penalty: A foreign national who is not notified to the Homeland Security Secretary at the current address of a foreigner under Article 265, or a non-foreign national parent or legal guardian, is fined under Article 18 of the United States Code (2) Impact on immigration status - Foreigners who are in violation of Article 265 (whether punished under paragraph (1)) or the Director may reasonably suspect such failure as Or are not deliberately detained for the elimination of aliens.If foreigner is not inspected or hospitalized or if alien is injured in accordance with the requirements of Article 265, If you do not submit notification of the address, the foreigner may be considered as a flight risk.

The common law law system is an introduction of foreigners to Uganda, procedures with foreigners who have problems. It is superimposed on various legal, quasi-legal and illegal systems that order order various societies and solve problems before colonization. From the outset, we tried to establish a dual system of district court and ordinary court and sterilize customary law and British law in colonial era. As a result, we will manage different laws from people (Juuko 2004)