My Family Is An Immigrant To United States

In my future class, I want to assign a project to my students that has them research their family history. In their project I would like them to interview four family members with specific questions to what they know about their family’s immigration process. Interviewing grandparents from both sides of the family is ideal. Then after the interviewing process, I would like them to create a poster explaining where their family originated from and some information about that place. Along with the poster and interviews, I would like the students to write a short essay of more facts and traditions from the places that their family immigrated from. After all my students have turned in their project, I would like to make a big class poster with the

This class has not only reinforced my cultural beliefs, but it has also challenged some preconceived notions of all cultures. I am a first generation Mexican American. My parents were born in Mexico and came to American 25 years ago. In contrast, I was born and raised in California with my older and younger brother. My brothers and I constantly struggled between two distinctive cultural norms— the Mexican culture, and the American culture. My parents are from a small town called San Juan De Los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico. San Juan is centered on religion¬– it is the home of La Virgin De San Juan, Henceforth, both of my parents were reinforced with strict religious values. My mother attended an all girls catholic primary school. My father was less fortunate and had to attend public primary school, however, since San Juan is grounded on religion, public schools also integrated reliogious values. My parents constantly compare and complain about the lack of values schools in the Unites States teach in their curriculum. Things like: respect your elders, and proper etiquette skills. Due to stricter boundaries here in the U.S, I can see why integrated such things can become problematic. For example, both of my parents experienced physically getting scolded with a ruler for things like: talking back to professors, being disruptive, and even for having dirty fingernails or a messy appearance. Although my parents were raised in strict catholic environments, they have not reinforced

Mr. Board Chair... Colleagues and Friends. I am an immigrant. Three years ago, I recounted my story as an immigrant to this great nation, of how I became a successful family physician, and of the great sacrifices by my family and especially my father in helping me to get here. Today, again I stand before you. I 'd like to tell you my story as a digital immigrant. Yes. I am a digital immigrant and like most of you, I was not born with a silver iPad in front of my face. I was able to apply the same immigrant ethics to work and with optimism and resiliency, I am able to successfully adapt to this brave new digital world.

My parents Immigrated from Poland to the United States in search for better opportunity for the children that they planned to have. When my parents finally made the move, they started with nothing and no one to turn to; they did not even know how to speak English. All my parents knew for sure was that they were going to raise three children in America and do all they could possibly do to motivate and make them passionate for school. My parents have always wanted their children to achieve the careers of their dreams and be able to support their own family as well as be happy with their lives. My parents have struggled with money their entire lives, which is another reason why they did all they could to get to America and motivate their children for schooling. They did not want their children to struggle with money the way that they did. But this led another issue, affording college. My parents did not have enough money for their children to attend college. Because of this, I have done my best in school to earn outstanding grades and do my best to earn scholarships.

I am a second generation Mexican-American and the last of seven children. My siblings and I were born and raised here in the United States with a mix of Mexican and American values. Our parents migrated to the U.S. at an early age in search of the American dream. Both

The specific topics I will be talking about is the unfairness of life of an Immigrant family in the United stated of America. While also providing my own life and struggles of income for the family and first generation children, in this case me. Also the struggle of simultstaly going

they have to it, and lure of the “adolescent peer culture, and aspirations to join the American mainstream culture”(Munguia, 7). In addition, the parents of the immigrant students and other members of the family have very different understandings and attitudes about the American school system and how they operate. Some of these ideas and thinking reflects the parents/family member’s own experiences with schools, cultural and religious values, and the reasons why they left their country of origin to come to the United States. Correspondingly, their involvement and engagement with the inside their homes, new culture and with the school can vary. Moreover, if the youngsters learn to cope in the new environment faster than their parents do, they

The first institution that plays a major role in immigration is the Department of Homeland Security (DOH). John Francis Kelly is the fifth and current United States Secretary of the Department. Within the Department of Homeland Security lies the U.S. Citizenships and Immigration Services (USCIS). According to “Who Does what in U.S. Immigration”, the USCIS, “…is responsible for providing immigration-related services such as processing immigrant and nonimmigrant benefits; adjudicating refugee, asylee, and naturalization petitions; and granting or denying work authorization”. USCIS has four eligibility requirements:

So many people attempt to come into the United States every year. From Central America, 400,000 migrants attempt to make it into the U.S every year.

Immigrating to the United States from Belarus at a young age has helped me becoming the person I am today. When my family and I moved , none of us could speak a word of English other then yes , no , hello. We started living with my aunt who had recently moved a year ago, and from there my mother did everything she could to create the better life we moved here for.

When I began my research on the multitude of family problems, there were millions of options to choose from but narrowing down to one topic was especially difficult. I decided to choose a topic close to home which was illegal immigrant family problems. The different obstacles illegal immigrant families face on a daily basis which is a wide range of issues from health care to deportation. The effect of deportation on the families and the support that can be found in public places like school and also the lack of support they can receive from the government. The range of articles that cover these issues is overwhelming so choosing articles was not a problem. There were the scholarly journals that covered issues immigrant families concerning

The interviews information permitted reconstruct the family immigration process, educational path, and significant conditions which let these young people access to university studies in adverse conditions. For this purpose, were interviewed young immigrants between 17 and 29 years old, with more than five years of residence in the state of Utah and were studying at the time of the interview. These profiles correspond to the characteristics of Deferred Action Program

As I sat inside of a diminutive coffee shop on Flatbush Avenue, in the vast borough of Brooklyn, the thought of my homeland I could not parry. My childhood was filled with the sound of beautiful arias echoing with the wind. Alas, everything that shines shall tarnish with every strike of the hour. Though many may look upon my people with a sardonic perspective, I simply avoid their gaze and remind myself that I never will reach the state of incongruity. I was regarded by many as a bright, young prospect previously… I shall not allow my identity to shatter… I am an immigrant whom someday will own this city.

Citizens of certain developed countries deemed politically and economically stable by the U.S. government are allowed to visit for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa. Known as the visa waiver program, this expedited system is primarily used by people coming here on vacation. It does not allow foreign citizens to work, go to school, or apply for permanent status. The visa waiver program is currently available to citizens of 37 countries.

There are many Asian immigrants that come to the United States in hopes of living out their American dream of becoming United States citizens. My parents came here exactly for that same reason, so they can give my sisters and I the opportunity to live a better life. We were fortunate enough to have our relatives help us get here, making it a little less difficult for us compared to other families that took a different path to becoming citizens. However, it was not always this easy for an Asian immigrant family like ours to become naturalized citizens. It used to be near impossible for immigrants of Asian descent to become a United States citizen, but in recent years, there have been a spur of people with Asian ethnicity who are