Video Analysis: A Better Life

To this day, Carlos still lives here in the U.S. because he has a Visa. He is not a citizen of the U.S. and therefore, does not have the same privileges as citizens. His national identity is stripped not only through laws of the U.S. but also socially. As a Mexican

Most of immigration occurs due to the living condition of these travelers in their native country. Like Savant mentions in his essay “the issue boils down to legal conformity versus possible starvation” (Savant 374). Employment in the U.S. is the prime reason for entering the country illegally, leaving their towns and often families to pursue the American dream. With heart filled with hope and dreams they embark on a journey to reach the land that will allow them to have a stable job with better pay. With a family living in poverty and the fact that the U.S. provides for “some of their country-men to earn more in a day than he/she does in a month” (Savant 374) breaking

They are motivated by the people who own nice houses and new cars. They had temporary visa and had to wait long time to get citizenship. They are not familiar with the American cultures. They need to find the cash payment work. All the immigrants have to face the challenge and the difficulties to emerge in to the new world it is the story of each immigrants who are migrated to America.

Whether it’s due to personal reasons, economic reasons, or unemployment, sometimes people need the opportunity to leave their nation and move somewhere new. Either to build onto what they already have or start over completely, moving to another country provides a very appealing alternative to the state of their current lifestyle. Often times this ends up in illegal immigration, which has more positive effects than people are led to believe. At one point in time America relied on outsiders so much that they were willing to enslave them in order to. Like many other settler societies, the United States, before it achieved independence and afterward, relied on the flow of newcomers from abroad to occupy its unsettled lands. They had land and

One fact about Mexico is that it has multiple push and pull factors. A few examples of some of Mexico’s pull factors are because of a beautiful landscape, lower costs of living, and affordable properties. These are all major factors in the moving process. Unfortunately, Mexico has a large amount of push factors as well. Some of these push factors are urbanization in the West, violence, and migration policies. It is clear by the amount of people migrating from, and to, Mexico that these are big factors in migration. According to Fox News, “The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico from 2009 to 2014” (Fox News). This shows how much pull factors are involved in Mexican immigration. Push and pull factors are a huge part of one of the world’s biggest immigration issues, but their are other factors as well.

Political stress, poverty, unemployment and a lack of jobs are some of the factors. Despite the countries that are stricken with these problems may be evolving, the actual problem is not. We see that over the years people tend to travel to the United States due to the various different political disputes that are occurring in their homeland. Many illegal immigrants travel to the Unites States seeking a better opportunity not only for themselves but also for their children. The way our global economy is set up there will always be 3rd world countries that cant create a healthy living environment for their peoples, thus making them seek greener pastures elsewhere. In places like Haiti and Cuba, for example there are high levels of income inequality, leading to high levels of unemployment and poverty. The fact that there are so little jobs circulating through the economy forces the citizens of these nations to look for jobs elsewhere. The fact that our policy has been constantly changing is actually more motivation for immigrants to travel to America. If the United States is somewhat accepting a high amount of illegal immigrants than that would encourage those people to travel to America, whether that is legally or not. I specifically used the word “somewhat” accepting immigrants because you see in states such as Arizona they are implementing new state-wide laws to drastically alter the amount of illegal immigrants that are passing throughout that

According to Anderson in “Illegal Immigration: Causes, Methods, and Effects”, immigrants come to America from neighboring countries especially Mexico to benefit from economic, educational and other opportunities that being a resident of America provides. When compared to Mexico, a typical worker earns $118 per week as compared to America where same Latino worker earns $537 per week. These numbers are significant push for people to cross borders from Mexico to America. (46)

For many migrants their dreams of coming to the United States to fulfill their goals, work and study what they like is to become today in unfulfilled dreams. All who came became full time worker because they are the only help of their families the country they are original have to put food on their families tables and sometimes to provide money for housing or a small business.

There are many reasons why foreign people migrate to the United States. A few reasons consists of finance, living conditions, war, health reasons, and a search for a soul mate (Experts). Some of the migrants live in poverty, so in order to get out of it, they move to a place that have well-paying jobs. Coincidently they choose to work for a lesser price than American citizens do but its probably still more than what they make in their homeland. Also with poverty comes living conditions. People who are poor or who have very low income most likely live in ghettos. If a country were in a war or constantly going to war, one would like to move out of the country and stay out of the danger zone. Whether the battle is with another country or within the country. Health is another big reason for migration. Maybe a disease spreads throughout their homeland and they want to leave before getting the disease. If one becomes affected then they would like treatment, so they come to America because we have one of the best health researchers and one of the best curers of diseases. For example, the Ebola virus that has caught people’s attention especially Americans, is bringing patients from Africa to America for disease treatment.

Poverty and the promise of the American Dream is the two major reasons people immigrate to America. In the novel those reasons are certainly the two that come to mind the main reason. After the death of Juana’s little sister Anita her father Miguel Garcia decides to go to El Otro Lado aka America. Because of Anita’s accidental death Miguel must make the choice of taking his chances for a better life by making the long journey to America or stay with his family and take years to pay off Don Elias the man that paid for Anita’s funeral. The already poor family now owes a great deal of money to Don Elias. This pushes Miguel into making the choice to leave his family and go to American to provide a better life for his family. So the already poverty

Whereas the push-factors drive immigrants out of their countries of origin, the pull-factors are responsible for directing where these immigrants end up (Schwab, P 10). On one hand, the push-factors to immigrate for many people are economic hardship, poor living conditions, and political reasons. The most significant reason that drives immigrants to leave their countries is economic hardship. In other words, few opportunities existed in the immigrants countries which lead them to immigrate for better jobs and better lifestyles . For instance, according to Schwab “The motivation for emigrating from the various countries Mexico, Pakistan, Ghana, and Vietnam was economic" (P

Her parent stimulated to migrate to the U.S. for getting their children better learning environment. Another example is Roman from El Salvador, his mother left him her escape from the violent. He remained with the relatives to look after him. Roman joined by his mother after three years of separation. His dream has been just to complete his education. But his mother had a different opinion, she still struggled to keep him from the dangerous and drug activities which are surrounding their home. Addition to some cases who want rather to successful by benefit of great chances. So we must know the motivating factors for migration:

This source analyses the causes for immigrations. Often people leave their native country due to poverty, issues of security or simply because they are seeking a better life. Maximo explains that he was born at the mountain and due to all was hard work was able to live in the city for the purposes of his education. He lived in poverty and had to work hard in order to accomplish his dream. Eventually, he will leave Mexico due to poverty and because of his dream of a better life.

What drives immigrants to endure the perilous journey to the United States is precious freedom, and the chance of living the American dream. More commonly parents bring their children in hope for a greater standard of life. Undoubtedly there are better education opportunities that correspond directly to better job opportunities. In other cases immigrants are seeking asylum from war-torn countries just trying to escape death by any means necessary. Extreme poverty is an epidemic in foreign countries and unfortunately those residing poverty are forced to accept life, or strive for a new one. Foreign medical institutions may not be capable to treat illnesses whereas in the United States, advanced medical technology is in abundance.

One cause of illegal immigration is the hope for a better life. The biggest reasons many illegal immigrants come to the U.S is because it offers education, better jobs, and better health care. In the U.S the education is free where as in other countries you may need to pay for school and supplies and a bunch of other stuff that are need for school. Usually some schools will give out free supplies, that is until they run out. There are also always some organizations and programs that offer to donate free school