GRF Esmeralda presented a compelling history of the illegal immigration policy in the United States, and explained how images and labels act as vehicles for promoting different political platforms, sometimes at the expense of demoting others. Imagery has the power to evoke and convince and forge the empathetic Other within the viewer, therefore by default is propaganda: simplistic and catering to a specific agenda. I am interested in learning and paralleling the struggle of immigrants from South and Central America and Mexico to immigrants from across the ocean. Why doesn’t the Dream Act extend to other illegal immigrants? I am also not sure whether borrowed frameworks from the Civil Rights movement legitimizes the Dream Act movement as one to adopt itself as the Civil Rights (it was also hinted but not clarified as to which civil rights movement—African American, Gay, Women’s?); it is a civil rights contention, but jarringly different from the African American Civil Rights. I caution against a bridging like this because that would be like paralleling the Syrian refugees with the Holocaust, and by doing that the hardships of one oppressed group are collapsed and condensed and therefore devalued by becoming the political platform for another group.