In the poem “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” by Jimmy Santiago Baca the paradox is that White Americans feel forced out of their jobs but the Mexicans are not forcing people out of their jobs at all. Through the poem Baca uses large amounts of imagery to prove his point. He starts his poem by saying that the Mexicans come with horses and riffles across the border to take jobs away from people. This shows the negative viewpoint some people may see of Mexicans. He uses imagery and exaggeration to show that Mexicans are not forcing people out of their jobs. Later in the poem he paints a picture of what seems like an old, overweight white man claiming that Mexicans came to steal jobs. His specific choice of words was great because we see an old, overweight man that has trouble breathing complaining, the person complaining in the poem doesn’t seem like someone affected by Mexicans taking jobs. He also uses imagery to show us who he thinks is the real villain. The white farmer from New York, he owns a farm while never living or owning one. The real villain doesn’t care who he hires, white, black or Mexican. He uses Mexican labor because his profits increase. Again he shows that Mexicans are not forcing people out of their job, they are the cheaper form of labor. At the end of the poem he says that the problem is not Mexicans taking jobs, the problem is that the white farm owners are making seas of money while the employees are barely surviving and the children are suffering.