Project #3: Illustrate a Story

In this project illustrated stories via story Corp, I listen to alot of stories that had to do with immigration. This is a topic that is long overdue for discussion. This peculiar story caught my attention because back in 1933 a gentleman by the name of Ruben Aguilar was deported from Chicago, Ill. where he was born as an American citizen and shipped off to Mexico and he didn't even speak Spanish. In his story he expresses how back then hundreds of thousands of people were forced to be deported without due process, even though they were American citizens.

He says that he was enrolled in the army and was allowed back into the country. he also says, "I grew up when this happened" this means that during the time of war and the great depression and all his struggles he never forgot how horrible his country treated him as a child. The narrator asks "how he would like to be remembered," Ruben responds by saying, "I was born in this country, and I would like to died in this country" you can tell that he was crying because he said, "that is something you never forget."

Ruben told this story to his friend Bill Luna and now is remembered and recorded for the US Library of Congress.

Link to listen to his story: Ruben Aguilar and Bill Luna | StoryCorps

here is a illustration that I drew and I feel depicts the story for the whole issue that would support Ruben and now what is called the Freedom Act.

My title: The hand of Suppression 

hope you like my narrative story about Ruben. I truly hope we can be One Nation, One Voice, and One Country someday. Leave a comment if you'd like.... your classmate, Veronica