In “The Good immigrant Student” by Bich Minh Nguyen we get a better understanding of what immigrant kids are dealing with in school especially in English because it’s not their native language. We get to understand the struggle they go through every day. Nguyen states “Kids today has the advantage of so much collective cultural wisdom, that they are so much more socially and politically aware than anyone was when I was in school.” Immigrants kids have the chance to do better and learn so many more things that people like Nguyen couldn’t have to learn when she was younger. However, the problem is that it’s hard to motivate the kids they either really start to focused and they want to better themself to a great degree. Or they decided to quit and fade away and accomplished nothing. Nguyen feels powerless because she doesn’t know how to help the kids that gave up and it scared her because she can see them give up like a flickering light that will fade. She states “that some kids will always want to disappear and disappear until they actually do.” She doesn’t want the same thing that happens to her happen to other kids she was bullied because she didn’t know as much as the other kids and because of that she really couldn’t defend herself, the kids also made fun of how she looked which cause her to question herself to the point that I affect her daily life. She wasn’t able to defense for the kids and support their future right away and she always regretted it but now that she had the power and the education she wants to be the voice of the immigrant’s students and wants to make sure that they never have to suffer again.

In “The Good Immigrant Student” by Bich Minh Nguyen, the author shares her story of being an immigrant student in the United States. In Paragraph 28 Nguyen says “I would like to make a broad, accurate statement about immigrant children in schools. I would like to speak for them (us). I hesitate; I cannot.” By that I think she means she would like to speak on what its like being an immigrant child attending an American school but thinks she cannot speak on behalf of the rest of them. Mainly because she thinks that everyone has their own emotions and views things separately. Everyone has different experiences. Also in the text Nguyen says “I wanted to disappear. I was not brave enough to shrug my shoulders and flaunt my difference: because I could not disappear into the crowd.” This shows that she is different from the students in terms of the way she goes about social interactions. Which is why she cannot make a broad accurate statement because she does not have the same experiences as everyone else.

In the passage “Outlaw: My Life in America as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas, it states the power and connotations of the words “undocumented immigrants” and “illegal aliens”. These words are wrong to call an immigrant. It may make the immigrant feel unwelcomed or that they do not belong here. These words are offensive because it can assume that an immigrant does not have the legitimate authentication to be in the country, they want to be in.

In the passage,” Outlaw: My Life in America as an Undocumented Immigrant,” Jose is from the Philippines and migrated to the United States when he was middle school. He shares his story of how he found out he was undocumented until he was in high school. He expresses his life limitations and the missed opportunities he would not achieve because of his illegal documentation. He has to hide this fact from people which caused him to have anxiety and paranoia. He worked hard to earn his citizenship to stay in America to get his better chances.

In Jose’s situation, he should be referred to as an undocumented immigrant. The reason for this is because he is still a person with feelings and rights. Also, because he should not be called anything else that makes him sound like a criminal.

In the passage, “The Good Immigrant Student”, Minh Nguyen writes about herself growing up and learning the difficulty immigrant children have. She had to fit in school and act like the other kids there. From an early age she had to “Americanize” because her mother believed that the American culture will take over. She could not live the double life like other immigrant kids because she wanted to go through school unnoticed. As she grew up, she forgot who she was. She became anxious and shy because she had to act like the “good immigrant student.”

In paragraph 28 Nguyen states, “I would like to make a broad, accurate statement about immigrant children in schools. I would like to speak for them (us). I hesitate; I cannot”. The meaning of this is that she wants to send a message to all immigrant students who struggled just like her growing up, but she cannot. Her experience can be different from those who went through the same thing. She realized she cannot speak for everyone in her community, because they could have gone through something completely different like her sister. Nguyen states, “My own sister for instance, was never shy as I was – she chose rebellion rather than silence.” This clearly points out that even though they had the same backstory and were raised the same way, she went through a different experience than her sister.