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The Importance Of Immigrants To The American Dream

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Does America still provide access to the American Dream to the “tired, the poor and the huddled masses?” The American Dream is an idea where freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, where every person; citizen or not, regardless of gender, should be able to achieve through hard work. America no longer provides access to the access to the American Dream to all but they should because immigrants come to America in search of a new life and not only do they help themselves but they help the country as well.
Immigrants come to America to escape the horror of the many challenges that their countries face day after day. In this story “True Immigrant Stories: Tanya at Ellis Island”, which tells us, “Cossacks invaded their settlement… murdered anyone they could find… Tanya and her family were instructed to climb down the ladder outside their house leaning against the window… the family ran to a house where an …show more content…

An example for this is from a book named “Illegal Immigration”, Robin Martini, an immigrant from Guatemala explained “We give a grain a day of ourselves to this country, we want to be part of it. We respect the laws. We pay taxes. We want a piece of the American Dream.” and “We do jobs that are inseparable from your standard of living.” Immigrants help with jobs that others might not be able to do. They work hard for this country and they earn money but they also pay for what is needed. “ I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean- hungry yet today despite the dream…” this quote is from the poem “Let America Be America Again”. Lower class people and immigrants work hard on a daily basis wishing to succeed maybe one day. In these examples, they explain how both lower class and immigrants help the country develop and how they should also be helped as

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Immigrants go through blood, sweat, and tears to provide for their families and live out the American dream. They risk their lives swimming across the Rio Grande River in order to supply money and put food on the table for their families. Although they make it out of Mexico their hardships are just beginning. Once the immigrants get to San Antonio they have to work their way up to the real money.

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The American Dream is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. In other words, an individual who has money, a vehicle, a place of residence, formal clothes, and a happy family is living the American Dream. The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the theme :the decline of the American Dream. With that being said the essay “Moral Perfection” by Benjamin Franklin and the art piece “Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island” further my understanding of the theme portrayed in The Great Gatsby. Furthermore, The Great Gatsby is a novel that demonstrates/gives the reader a more detailed explanation and vivid picture

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Immigrants both documented and undocumented have been able to promote diversity throughout the entirety of the United States. Such a thing may open people’s minds and become more receptive and open to new cultures and experiences. Additionally, one must not forget about the contributions immigrants bring to the U.S. economy. Borjas (1995) states that with the presence of immigrant workers both documented and undocumented in the labor market, makes the U.S. economy an estimated 11 percent or 1.6 trillion dollars increase per year. Hanson (2007) further notes that immigrant’s aid in jobs that native-born Americans may not be able to fulfill.

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Is The American Dream Just a Dream? The American Dream is notable to be an aspiration for a better, wealthier, and joyful life for everyone of every class. For most Americans, this requires going to college and getting a college degree, getting a good paying job, buying a house with the white picket fence and a dog, and starting a family. Although this seems wonderful, a large amount of the American population believes that the Dream has changed extremely or doesn’t believe in the dream because of increased prices in society, the price of tuition being unaffordable, as well as the unemployment rate skyrocketing and lower job growth.

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