IMMIGRATION ISSUES REACH TV!

Padre de Familia is the title of a Family Guy episode from season 6 episode number 12. In the episode, Peter finds out that he is an illegal Mexican immigrant, so he is forced to take a job as a servant for Lois's dad. The title of this episode, Padre de familia, is actually the name of the show in spanish. Which basically translates to "Father of the Family"

In the beginning of the episode, Peter feels that immigrants shouldn't be allowed to be in the country and that they are taking all the "good jobs" away from Americans. Peter begins to have strong pride for America and even begins wearing only clothes with the American Flag on it.
       Peter convinces his boss to do a company-wide immigration check to make sure everyone in the company was a legal US Citizen. Due to this, Peter has to ask his mom for his birth cartificate. Peter's mom then must confess and then begins telling him that he is actually an immigrant and that he wasn't born in the United States and that he was born in Mexico but she was too afraid of being judged and she was too embarassed to register him as an American.

Peter's mom explains how she went to Mexico after finding out she was pregnant to try and get an abortion but instead Peter was born right there. When he was born his mom realized how much she loved him and took him back to America with her.

Peter finds himself out of a job due to him being an illegal immigrant and has to take a job as a lawn service worker for Lois' dad. After some time of working for Lois' dad, Peter learns that immigrants are really all the same and stands up to Lois' dad and eventually Lois' dad agrees to make Peter a legal citizen.


This episode shows that even immigration can reach popular tv shows. Also, it shows that if everyone took the time to see how another group of people from a different country live, they would see they are just the same as us.