Artifact Five Reflection

My fifth and final Artifact was another commercial about immigration. This commercial however, had a very different theme to it than the first one I analyzed. In this commercial many undocumented immigrants living in the US talked about how they were being denied healthcare. In America today, we have Obamacare, which was made so everyone in the US can be given healthcare. However, the immigrants in this commercial were not being given healthcare because they weren't documented US citizens.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure about my opinion on with this commercial. In the commercial, they make the point that in America, the government has promised affordable healthcare to "everyone". However, illegal immigrants aren't given such healthcare. They say that they want to be a par of "everyone" and they deserve healthcare just as much as any of us do. However, in a way their argument is completely flawed simply from the fact that they aren't lawful citizens of the United States.

This made me see that, though a lot has changed since the time period of The Distance Between Us, some things are still the same. In the book Reyna has to be taken to a dentist appointment pretending to be her dad's girlfriend's daughter, Cindy, because Reyna's family didn't have insurance. The commercial I examined has about how immigrants were being denied health insurance. So this shows me that, despite everything I've seen that has changed, some things, like it being hard for immigrants to get insurance have stayed the same.