Pros And Cons Of Undocumented Immigrants In The United States

Many people come to the United States for the “American Dream”, some just come with a suitcase or nothing at all, in return all they want is a better life for them and their family. Why is it that some Central American and Caribbean immigrants do better in the United States than others? If you have a better education, you qualify for better paying jobs, the more social people you know the better you can rely with getting a job, and the longer you live here the more you know your way in the United States. Salvadoran and Cuban transnational families, have been competing for a spot in the United States, since the Cold War.

Salvadoran transnational families do not have the access to come to the U.S. freely. Christopher Woolley conducted a census,

The Reagan administration and Control Act (IRCA) passed a reform, which made it illegal for anyone to hire undocumented workers in the United States, even permanent residents were deported.“... The new law made it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal permanent residence… for a vastly expanded set of noncriminal offenses” (Abrego 8). Undocumented immigrants live with fear of deportation, this fear prevented them from fighting for their rights. “These disadvantages can prevent undocumented immigrants from thriving economically and integrating socially into the United States…”(Abrego

“The first phase of the Cuban exile ended with the fiasco of the Freedom Fighters’ at tempt to liberate Cuba from Castro’s hold” (Pedraza 265). During the second phase, middle class Cubans, “Parasitos”, who were skilled workers wanted to escape Castro’s ruling, “that was set on by the growing political turmoil when the Catholic church was silenced after denouncing the revolution” (Pedraza 265). Cubans’ were worried about the electoral system collapsing when, “...Castro announced that he had always been a Marxist- Leninist and would be so until he died” (Pedraza