Interfaith Immigrant Legal Services

Over this past weekend I volunteered at a buffet for the group Interfaith Immigrant Legal Services. While volunteering at the event I was able to learn about the organization and what they do. It is an organization with the purpose of helping immigrants get the formal paperwork they need, whether it be to get authorization for work, or to become legal. The only goal of this organization is to help people. They rely greatly upon donations and volunteers to do all of the amazing work that they do. The greatest take away that I received from this buffet and fundraiser was how illegal immigrants become classified as refugees once they are already here. At the end of the event a video was played. This video was a once illegal immigrant from Mexico who became legal after appealing to the courts. It was a very touching video, and quite astonishing at what she went through. To become a legal immigrant and many others besides her, to become refugees, they had to appeal their reasoning to the courts. By this, I mean that they needed to present the situation they are in and why they should be classified as refugees. In this presentation the use of rhetoric would be greatly beneficial. By using rhetoric these people would be able to present their points persuasively and using ethos, logos, and pathos. This would greatly benefit the appeals because they would be able to present the direness of their situation better to the judges. Overall rhetoric greatly benefits many people.