Immigration To America By Pablo Salazar

In “Puerto Rican Obituary” by Pedro Pietri, the author takes his readers on a journey of the oppressive life of a Puerto Rican immigrant. He describes a vicious cycle of stagnancy in which immigrants work endlessly without reward. Hopeful every day that the American dream they once imagined would come to fruition, but instead they are continually faced with trials and turmoil on every hand. Instead of uniting as a body to work towards greatness, the immigrants grow envious of each other, focusing on what they lack instead of the blessings that they currently attain. Contrary to the ideals of early immigrants, Pietri portrays Puerto Rico to be the homeland. The ideals of early immigrants have drastically changed throughout the development of America. Petri paints a completely different picture of America throughout his poem. Early immigrants describe an America that is welcoming, with endless opportunities, and a safe haven. Despite earlier depictions of the immigrant experience, these ideals are challenged because they weren’t integrated into society, were inadequately rewarded for hard work, and were disadvantaged due to their socioeconomic status.

Pat Mora is an award-winning writer that bases most her poems on tough cultural challenges and life as a Mexican American. She was born in a Spanish speaking home in El Paso, Texas. Mora is proud to be a Hispanic writer and demonstrates how being culturally different in America is not easy. She explains this through her experiences and the experience other’s. In her poems “Elena”, “Sonrisas”, and “Fences”, Mora gives you a glimpse of what life as a Mexican American is; their hardships, trials, strength that make them who they are.

The United States is set apart from other countries in that we have a unique economic, political, and spiritual system from the rest of the world. This also poses a unique problem to our society: Since we possess desirable aspects as a country, we have to deal with the issue of immigration. Legal immigration is a great benefit to our society, and if we can control and harness immigration, it will better our country for years to come. While illegal immigration is an enormous problem that needs to be solved, legal immigration is a great asset to our economy and American society as a whole.

Immigration’s Truth Today, there is no debate on whether or not America is a country filled with immigrants because that’s exactly what America is, and has been for many, many decades. Immigration has given many fortunate people a chance to start over, create a life for themselves and their family, including you and me. If it weren’t for our ancestors immigrating to America, our life would not be what it is today. Cole successfully gives unbiased facts that support his thesis and gives logical reasoning to back his statements.

The article “How the Supreme Court’s immigration decision hurts all of us” (2016) Roberto G. Gonzales. Roberto G. Gonzales is an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of “lives in limbo:Undocumented and coming of age in america”. Gonzales sounds sad and disappointed through his article. Gonzales claims that the Obama administration had created a new and life changing program to help young undocumented immigrants. The program was named DACA which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program gives young immigrants deportation relief and other benefits such as a work permit a driver's license and some even open bank accounts and build their credit, which can benefit the economy. Gonzales explains

When one visualizes Latino culture, the prevalent images are often bright colors, dancing, and celebrations. This imagery paints a false portrait of the life of many Latino’s, especially those that are forced to leave their home countries. Latinos often face intense poverty and oppression, whether in a Latin country, or a foreign country, such is true in Pam Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising. Ryan chronicles the issues that many Latino immigrants face. The first is the pressure from the home country. Many of the countries face turmoil, and many are forced to leave their homes and culture. Once in a foreign place, people often struggle with standing by their own culture or assimilating to the new culture. Latino authors frequently use young adult literature as a platform to discuss the issues they face, as young adults are coming of age they struggle with their identities, personifying the struggle of old culture against the new culture.

In the reading, “The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples,” Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning primarily discusses the process that immigrants go through as they go about adapting and integrating into their new society. As the reading states, often when immigrants migrate to new societies, it is either for economic reasons as a means of achieving a better life for themselves or that of seeking political asylum as political refugees. A real world example of an immigrant enclave today is that of the thousands of Syrian refugees who emigrated to the United States and other countries in an effort to flee the Syrian civil war. During the midst of the Syrian crisis, many Syrian refugees sought

In the ThinkCerca passage,"Honduran Enterpreneur Helps Central American Immigrants Gain Legal Status in Mexico" by Mayal Sanchez states Nora Rodriguez is a hero because she is commited to serving immigrants the best of her ability. She is also known as a heroine because she took her work to the next level by creating a grassroots group whose goal is to generate networks among people in Guatemala,Hunduras,El Salvador and Nicaragua breathing in Mexico. The author vigorously presents the idea that hero's are always doing greater when she states,"she puts a printer on a chair,arranges plastic chairs around the desk, and finally, opens a beach umbrella to protect herself from the sun". Another piece of beneficial evidence from

In the book Immigrant America by Portes and Rumbaut they state that children of poor, less well educated immigrants to America run the risk of being swept up in street gangs, drug use, incarceration and teenage pregnancy. However, there are factors which may reduce the risk that children will be swept up in these destructive ways of life. These factors are high social capital and a condition known as selective acculturation.

"Prospective Immigrants Please Note", a poem by Adrienne Rich, helps one to ponder on the dual perspective, with the mother culture and the American ideals. Rich 's essential goal is for one to remember their families and

In conclusion, both of us Dan-el and I had a difficult undocumented life in the USA, but we made this hard situations a reason to make us a better people, nonetheless Dan-el had better opportunities of me that never had the change without “papeles”. Being undocumented gave Dan-el and I the power to look beyond our miseries and limits. The difficulties fueled ambitions of two immigrants to reached a better place in life, and used our desire to learn to pleasure in life different of people without goals. The our difference that shown in our story was motivation to never lose the hopefulness or regardless about our situations. In a millions of undocumented people that live in the USA, is for sure have many of people like Dan-el and I, waiting

Many immigrants are not accepted in their community for example, in the memoir, “The Distance Between Us”, written by Reyna Grande. This memoir shows how difficult life is for children to do well in school due to social problems. It shows how poverty affects the future of the children. The memoir shows a stereotypical Mexican family household where the father is abusive and the mother is in the workforce. The parents decide to move to the United States from Mexico and leave the children behind

The article “The Life of Carlos, an Undocumented New Yorker” exposes the dehumanizing atmosphere Honduras reveals to its population at a young age, causing many teenagers, such as Carlos, to be in search of a new life in the United States while losing their innocence along the journey to survive. When Carlos arrives to the United States, he is quickly thrown into an adult detention center, but then temporarily released to be with his U.S. citizen Grandmother. Alexandra Starr’s about Carlo’s journey is coupled with Edward Keating’s photographs of him. Starr’s writing focuses on the story of Carlos which vividly includes many situations an average person will never experience in their lifetime, except Carlos experienced this all before the

The Tortilla Curtain presents a realistic depiction of what the life of illegal immigrants is like while making the effort to live a “normal” life and survive. Our society is identical to the society in a novel published in 1995. In the novel’s society, immigrants are deemed to be less of people and therefore, the white community of Arroyo Blanco Estates thought to “wall the place in” (Boyle 189). The wall is to be placed around Arroyo Blanco Estates because the residents would like to isolate themselves from the coyotes, or the Mexican immigrants. América and Cándido Rincón’s perspective of the wall presents a perspective an average white American citizen wouldn’t imagine to be immigrant’s perspective of the controversiality. The similarity of the wall being implemented to protect what it’s surrounding is one of the multiple similarities the audience learns about. A discussion about the mature and sensitive material “[stays] on your mind [and gives] a bit more strength to the difficulties of immigrants in the United States” (‘Tortilla Curtain’ resonates in high

Many refugees and immigrants come to the U.S. to get a better life, and face many difficulties. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez writes about a family that comes to the U.S. for a better life. It shows the difficulties a family faces in the U.S. At the same time, Cristina Nunez writes an article telling about challenges refugees and immigrants in the U.S. face. Cristina Henriquez narrative reflects the ideas of Cristina Nunez of challenges faced by refugees and immigrants by telling on how refugees and immigrants face hard challenges everyday on education, jobs, and learning english.