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Underwater Dreams tells the uplifting story of how undocumented Mexican teen engineers took on MIT in a competition and wonand the sad story of what happened after.
The subtext of the tough talk about the tens of thousands of child refugees flowing up from Central America is that like Mexicans they will be a drag on the American economywards of the state who suck taxpayers dry.
Valid point, but it ignores the fact that poor, undocumented Hispanicsthe ones most denigrated by Tea Party know-nothingshave much to offer, too, just as penniless immigrants (i.e. your ancestors) always have.
After Carl Hayden does the impossible and beats MIT for first place, the film takes a disturbing turn that left me and the rest of the preview audience in tears.
A decade after the competition, MIT professors invited the winners to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a reunion with the MIT team they beat. Not surprisingly, the losers were now winning engineers; one of the MIT graduates had gone on to invent ear buds for Apple.
The undocumented winners havent done so well.
Underwater Dreams will be screened soon in the White House. It should also be seen in every high school in the country, where it will inspire thousands of kids, and in Congress, where it might just jolt a few politicians out of their stupor and help them see young people for who they are, and who they can be.
These Undocumented Teens Outsmarted MIT, and Still Cant Get Real Jobs in America
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It's these kinds of kids that terrify Republicans. These kids want to learn and they have the talent. Republicans feel education makes you liberal and even suggesting that with education, you have a better chance of getting a job is a terrible insult. All you need is hard work. Not that liberal education that doesn't mean anything and only turns you into a "communist". Deep down, they know they simply don't have what it takes.
The subtext of the tough talk about the tens of thousands of child refugees flowing up from Central America is that like Mexicans they will be a drag on the American economywards of the state who suck taxpayers dry.
Valid point, but it ignores the fact that poor, undocumented Hispanicsthe ones most denigrated by Tea Party know-nothingshave much to offer, too, just as penniless immigrants (i.e. your ancestors) always have.
After Carl Hayden does the impossible and beats MIT for first place, the film takes a disturbing turn that left me and the rest of the preview audience in tears.
A decade after the competition, MIT professors invited the winners to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a reunion with the MIT team they beat. Not surprisingly, the losers were now winning engineers; one of the MIT graduates had gone on to invent ear buds for Apple.
The undocumented winners havent done so well.
Underwater Dreams will be screened soon in the White House. It should also be seen in every high school in the country, where it will inspire thousands of kids, and in Congress, where it might just jolt a few politicians out of their stupor and help them see young people for who they are, and who they can be.
These Undocumented Teens Outsmarted MIT, and Still Cant Get Real Jobs in America
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It's these kinds of kids that terrify Republicans. These kids want to learn and they have the talent. Republicans feel education makes you liberal and even suggesting that with education, you have a better chance of getting a job is a terrible insult. All you need is hard work. Not that liberal education that doesn't mean anything and only turns you into a "communist". Deep down, they know they simply don't have what it takes.
