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Mexican American Immigrants

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“An American to Mexicans/a Mexican to Americans” (Pat Mora). This is a quote from a poem about being Mexican American immigrant and all its struggles. In America immigrants will always be seen as immigrants, even if they are American citizens. Immigrants have trouble being successful in the the U.S. because of the way they are treated by U.S. born citizen - especially xenophobic people. This causes them unable to obtain freedom because they are undermined as citizens. An immigrant wouldn’t know what to expect when they got to their new home, many scared and nervous, some may be excited to start their life in a new and better country. Besides all of those things they all have something in common: they are immigrants. Interracial marriage was something society also did not like. One interracial couple went to washington to get …show more content…

Success can be hard as an immigrant. In Funny in Farsi when the iranian revolution began “a group of Americans in Tehran were taken hostage in the American embassy. My father was laid off.”(117). Since the hostage situation and it being in Iran all of the sudden all people from Iran are bad. Just because a few Iranians did some bad things now Kazem, Firoozeh’s dad, is out of a job. Not having a job is a major setback for Kazem and his family, and their goal of achieving the american dream. Kazem was undermined as a citizen because of where he was from. This is a great example of even when you are a citizen of America you can still be treated as an Immigrant. In conclusion, Immigrants will always be immigrants. Success for immigrants can be a challenge with the way they are treated and viewed, even if they are citizens. They way they are viewed can increases the difficulty usually of their one goal, to obtain freedom. Even an immigrant that is a full - fledged citizen can be treated as if they were in the U.S.

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Chapter 16 from the book Mexican Migrants by Hellman talks about how he started seeing life differently when he met Francisco. When he met Francisco he noticed he was a very reserved man. He believed that the actions immigrants do reflect on everyone, for example if they see immigrants being criminals now everyone will think everyone is like that. I agree with Francisco because some people might meet the wrong and bad Mexican immigrants and will judge everyone out of one person, then later this becomes hard to make that person believe that not everyone is like the first person he encounter with. The problem with esquineros was that they stood all day hoping to get picked to go work with a contractor on a construction site.

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While it is true that immigrants provoke strong feelings good or bad in the people native the country they have immigrated to,

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Firoozeh writes about her life as an Iranian immigrant to America. Her family is treated with kindness by neighbors when they come to live in America and get lost on their way home from school: “…the woman and her daughter walked us all the way to our front porch and even helped my mother unlock the unfamiliar door,” (Dumas, 7). Firoozeh and her mother are not discriminated against because they are immigrants who don’t speak English, the Americans help them despite their differences. Had the neighbors not been helpful and patient, Firoozeh’s journey home would have been somewhat traumatic and daunting. While this a rather specific isolated example, it can serve as an analogy for all immigrants’ experience.

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Culture: the beliefs, customs, art, etc. of a particular society. Being a part of a culture is amazing, diverse, and interesting until the conflict from being a part of more than one culture becomes involved. This type of conflict can even change the way you see your culture. In the poem, “Legal Alien”, by Pat Mora, Pat Mora depicts her culture colliding with another, causing cultural conflict.

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The record states that DR residents in U.S have a lower median income than the overall foreign-born population, and the poverty rate of DR immigrants was also higher than the overall population. This contradicts with the picture mainstream media had given us where every immigrant will eventually find where they belong and live in prosperity. Fact is, a lot of immigrants out there still can not speak English, still don’t have a college degree, and still can not leave the bottom class of the society. Our protagonist Oscar did not get a decent job, although he finished college and wen to the other 14 percent(the rest DR immigrants don’t even have one ), everyone still hates him. This reflects that the lives of these immigrants are still not in a satisfactory state, they are still suffering in one way or

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Today, there are endless arguments about the existing of the American dream. In “They say, I say” by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel Durst. There are four article that I have evaluated. The upside of income inequality – Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy, American Dream: dead, alive, or on hold – Brandon King, Bring on more immigrant entrepreneur – Shayan Zadeh, America remains the world’s beacon of success – Tim Roemer

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For many new immigrants coming to America, it is difficult to adjust into the new society. Many come to America without the basic knowledge of English, the new immigrants do not have the ability assimilate to American society because of the lack of possible communication between the immigrant and an native. Non-English speaking immigrants that come to America face harsh challenges when trying to assimilate to U.S. society because immigrants are often segregated into ethnic communities away from natives, Americans do not know basics of words of other well known languages, and the lack of government funding education programs. Assimilation into a new society is difficult enough, but when the society pushes any new immigrants to separate part

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Numerous stories are heart retching and devastating. Trying to imagine being in the shoes of those immigrants is almost impossible, as I have been blessed with a wonderful problem-free life. Unfortunately, I am unable to even relate to any of the several issues immigrants encountered daily, as I have never experienced anything they have suffered through. Although, I personally cannot attest to such horrible experiences, I can promote acceptance and equality among immigrants in America. Similarly, a quote by Carlos Ramirez suggests the same.

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Immigrants face many diffuculties from when they come to the country, raise children and cultural

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Lesson 9 1. Puerto Ricans immigrants are often portrayed as poor, lazy and scandalous individuals by Anglo Americans. At times, Puerto Ricans are not allowed to live up to their fullest potential because they are already labeled as impoverished people; stereotypes do not let Puerto Ricans rise to their fullest abilities because they often feel trapped by the welfare rumors. Thus, whenever the dominant white people think of the minorities they will always see the negative side of their labels as opposed to what they are fully capable of. 2.

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Although can 't no detailed comments that whether immigrants are successful or if they are successful are happy also?! Do they have been able to forget their sufferings during their lives though the sufferings that they had no direct role in it. Most of them have suffered from geographical determinism and/or ethnic. They are always trying to be part of their new community with efforts and want to contribute in the society. Although another part of their success is in acceptance them and interact with them from the new society.

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Many immigrants in Latin America come from indigenous backgrounds; they don’t speak Spanish but their native dialects. I want the world to see and understand what these people have to deal with. First of all many of the illegal immigrants that come through Mexico have to suffer discrimination, starvation, and exctorion from the Mexican Mafia who despites the rest of Latin America. Immigrants from central and south America leave their countries and cross mexico in a train called “La Bestia” which translates to “The Beast”. This train never strops so there are records of many people who have lost an extremeity whil trying to get on the train.

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Illegal immigration from Mexico is actually negative (Smith). More illegal immigrants are leaving the country to go to back to Mexico than are coming to the USA. In the early 2000’s the immigration boom from Mexico was upon us. By 2007, illegal immigration was at an all time high at an estimated 12 million people (Yen). Although many Americans feel that illegal immigrants should be deported, they should not be deported because they expose us to new cultures that we may have never experienced, most have been following our laws, and many illegal immigrants have family in the US.

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An immigrant family wants the best for everyone lives, however moving to a new country brings struggles. There struggles include finding a home, a good paying job, avoiding to be deported, being separated ,and continuing their education. Immigrants expect a better life because their old home and country did have much benefits as the new country gives them. The advantage of an immigrant family is family values which tends them to be closer. Disadvantages of an immigrant family are the struggles that were first mentioned and including that they face other people calling them a threat.

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Immigration and The American Dream Immigrants from the mid 19th century and early 20th century consisted of mainly Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Immigrants motivations, experiences, and impacts shaped what an immigrant had to go through being a different person from another country. Although Americans dislike foreigners who came to the United States, immigrants had a role in political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of immigrants because of their motivations, experiences, and impacts in America. New Immigrants did not have it easy and went through obstacles natives, political figures, bosses and others had thrown at them.

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