Essay about My American Dream

Immigration has always been a topic of conversation in politics, especially in the last election. People’s views towards whether immigration is a bad or good thing for the economy is up for debate. Many people find that immigrants destroy the economy, and have no right coming into the United States. Whereas some people view immigrants as a vital part of the United States’ social class, and they view immigrants as strong, willful people who made the difficult decision in coming over to the United States. In the two articles, “In Trek North, First Lure Is Mexico’s Other Line” written by Randal archibold, and “The Heartache of an Immigrant Family,” written by Sonia Nazario, it gives people an insight into the struggles and hardships families endure

The author Sonia Nazario goes on this journey to get the feel of what immigrants do in the real world. She wrote this story that way us readers understand the struggles immigrants go through daily. United States citizens do not realize there is a growing number of immigrants daily. Enrique’s mother Lourdes left him at such a young age with a lot of responsibilities, that children should not have to worry about. Lourdes wanted nothing but the best for her children, therefore she traveled all the way to the United States, that way she could make a lot of money to support her children. As a mother she did not want her kids to have the life she did. Throughout Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario, the author includes emotional and logical appeals, accurately supported by statistics and personal accounts that give perspectives on the same issue of immigration and Enrique living without his

Everyone has a different story of how they ended up where they are. But in many ways, people’s stories are all similar. There are many hardships that every family has to deal with when immigrating to a different country that they are not a citizen of. There are barriers and pulls, but there are also bridges and pushes. Even though people are from different countries immigrating to the United States, they all experience almost all of the same hardships, as displayed in the Pechota Family, John, and René’s immigration stories.

The “American dream”, a national ethos of the United States, is sought after by many struggling immigrants who go through much risk in order to make a better living in the U.S. A long debated issue over illegal immigration into the U.S revolves around Mexican/Latino immigrants. With Honduras having little to no medical care and harsh living environments, many of its citizens seek to find jobs to support their families. Enrique’s Journey, bye Sonia Nazario sheds a new light on immigration in the U.S with the account of one particular Honduran boy who is trying to immigrate to the U.S. From the view of privileged individuals, these immigrants may be seen as a problem, with a simple solution; do not let them into the U.S. However, this problem has a much more complex lining.

Immigrating to America is a process in which many people all across the world entrust as their one way ticket to a better life. Whether they do so legally or illegally, coming to the United States ensures better opportunities, economically, politically, and so on, to people who would have otherwise been worse off in their countries of origin. Even so, the common understanding of being “better off” can be considered a misconstrued concept when it comes to living in the states. Many families that choose to immigrate to the U.S. fail to realize the cultural hardships that newcomers tend to face once on American soil. Anything from racial discrimination or bias at work, in neighborhoods, at school, etc., can all be challenges that people encounter when making a move to the U.S. Such challenges are described by Richard Rodriquez in his autobiography Hunger of Memory. In this passage, he explains how cultural differences between Mexican and American ways of life have shaped him into the person that he is today. He also chooses to highlights the problems that he faces growing up in a predominately white neighborhood, while attending a predominantly white institution. Much of his writing consists of the cultural differences and pressures he feels to assimilate to Western culture and how this process, in turn, changes him into the person that some may find to be unethical, but nonetheless, someone he is proud of.

This article focuses on the good and bad consequences of illegal immigration, and the many laboring hours these illegal immigrants struggle through in order to earn minimum wage to support their families. One example of an illegal immigrant trying to provide enough for their family is Cristina Melendez. "The 36-year-old mother of seven was desperate. Her bank account had been at zero for months, the refrigerator was nearly empty, and she didn't have enough money to cover the rent," In Nation’s Breadbasket states. There were many things that lead up to Melendez not having enough money to provide for herself or her family of seven, one of those reasons being the fact that she lived in the country illegally, but this all started with her father, "who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in the late 1970s to pick oranges."

When most people think about immigration to the United States, they think of the U.S. as being the “land of opportunity,” where they will be able to make all of their dreams come true. For some people, immigration made their lives richer and more fulfilled. This however, was not always the case. A place that is supposed to be a “Golden Land” (Marcus 116) did not always welcome people with open arms. Even after people became legal citizens of the United States, often times the natural born Americans did not treat the immigrants as equals but rather as outsiders who were beneath them in some way. In some situations, people’s lives were made worse by coming to the “land of opportunity.” Often times people were living no better than they

The first immigrant I interviewed will be referred to as “Jess”. Jess is from Guanajuato which is in southern Mexico. Jess, his five brothers and sisters, and his parents were farmers. They grew corn as their main crop. Jess’s family lived in a three-bedroom brick house in Mexico. Their house surprisingly had water and electricity. He only made 100 pesos a day ($10.00 U.S.). According to Jess, this was not enough money to get by on his own. He said that the average person in Mexico needs at least 150 pesos per day to live on their own and someone raising a family needs much more than this. This is why in 1985, at the age of 18, he came to Arizona to find a better job and to help his family.

Garcia (2012) looks at three different cities in California, and two states (California and Oklahoma) and compares two sending communities who settle in those places (Tlacuitapa and Tunkas). Though she asserts that her research and conclusion is not conclusive and cannot be used to generalize the Mexican communities all over the United States, she concludes that immigrants move into those communities that are “not immigrant-friendly” places to seize the economic opportunities and reunite with the family roots. Their purposes were clear, and I think no one can blame. Their purposes are two of the most “American” goals: family, and “finding opportunity and pulling themselves by the bootstraps”. That is the American dream as many entrepreneurs (mostly white upper-class friends’ parents) taught me.

America may be known as the land of the free but that statement holds truth only to a small degree. Mexicans have been making their way into to the United States for roughly 166 years now and even after all this time they continue to struggle in order to survive in this “Freeland.” From the high volume of crime to the economic issues in the country of Mexico, many Mexican citizens yearn for a better life than what their own country could provide. In effort to attain this higher standard of living they migrate to the United States. The struggles of Mexicans do not stop once they leave Mexico, but instead they follow them through the journey of migration and even after they’ve gotten to America.

First, let's define "American Dream". "American Dream" is what you would consider a "perfect life." It can be full of happiness, money, love, food, cars, whatever you desire, everyone has a different opinion. One person’s American Dream may be totally different from someone else’s, that is what makes us all individuals. My American Dream would include a good job and lots of money, spare time for my family and I, and most importantly, healthiness.

As an undocumented, low-income, and first-generation college student, lack of resources and opportunity is nothing unusual to me. Since the second I was first handed into the arms of my then sixteen year old mother in Mexico City, the repulsive scent that is the lack of opportunity penetrated my nostrils and has followed me from one country to another. Although the strenuous transition through deserts, rivers, and swamps was life-threatening, the crossing washed over the scent that my family and I carried. I’ve found, it wasn’t cleansed in its entirety.

Here in the Rio Grande Valley immigration has become the hit. An immigrant in my own words is someone from a different country that travels to an alternative country permanently for a better life. I belief they are many unlike reasons why people live in their country but cross to another country. Actually, I’m not in immigrant, I’m a US citizen but I have experienced many stories and seen families struggle from this situation. Nevertheless, to my own experience, some people move to the US to find better jobs, but some move to different counties to look forward not only to better their education but their children’s as well. In this research paper I will be pointing out the important factors and expectations of illegal immigrants in the US,

“ it’s not about how you achieve your dream, it’s about how you lead your life. If you live your life the right way the Karma will take care of itself Do dreams will come to you.” Randy Pausch. Their dreams I had when I was younger I still remember them, But some dreams I have decided to let go. In order to achieve dreams you have to turn those drains into goals my planning them out in order to achieve them.

Migration is one of the biggest and most known examples of living. People migrate all the time, whether it is immigration into a country or emigrating out of a country. Migration happens very often, especially in our modern world; needless to say, it is something that people use as privilege in order to sustain and make their lives better. People migrate for numerous reasons, and those reasons depend on how their lives will be formed later on in time. On this subject, a specific example of migration can be seen in the illegal immigration from Mexico to USA. Many people in Mexico are not pleased with their lives, therefore they use illegal immigration in order to enhance it. Currently, in the modern world, America has been the solution to many individuals living problems in LEDC’s as well as in Mexico. It has the ability to provide people with the factors that they are lacking or have too much of. As of now, Mexico has the largest number of immigrants entering America and it is still increasing, however illegally. Illegal