On January 5th , 1988 , my mother, Rosita Rancharan immigrated to the U.S from a small city in Belize named Corozal. Although she was married and had a teaching job that kept her economically stable, when her papers came out she decided to immigrate to America because she saw greater economic opportunity. At the time she was building a house with her husband , but she did not want to take out loans to build it. Originally she had just come here to stay for a couple of months so that she could send money back home to her husband to help build their house. But eventually she became more adjusted to living here and decided to stay here and build a foundation. After moving here at the age of 27 , she has now been living in the U.S for more than 28 years. By living here she has been able to own a home, provide for her mom and her daughter has …show more content…
The specific village where she grew up was poor, she said “ life was rough” and her family faced many economic difficulties because of the size of her family. She was the 7th child out of the 13 that her mother had. Both of her parents themselves had grown up poor and were unable to pay to go to high school , so they got married and started their family at the age of 14. To make a living they grew sugar cane , corn , oranges and other crops as well as animals and sell them. However their biggest provider was sugarcane, which they would grow and harvest and sell to the factory that made sugar. The other crops they would sell to people in town. Since this was their way of living , every morning she would have to wake up early and go work in her parents fields before school . If she was not cutting cane then she was making breakfast , which usually consisted of tortillas with beans or squash they had planted. It was special for them to eat meat, they did not eat it on a daily basis because they could not afford
Many people are raised up by the idea that the society they live in always needs more adjustment, and other people around them are not always friendly. I am also one of those people. Since I was little, I was taught by my father not to trust anyone around, and not to pay too much effort into any kind of relationship. Even though I might not necessarily agree with him, I still followed his advice for years. However, I always ended up feeling lonely and depressed.
Most of her late adulthood was centered on taking care of her sick husband and mother and church activities. In 2008 her husband Raymond became very sick and later passed away. She then took on the role of taking care of her mother who too became ill. Due to her illness, she moved her mother in her house where she took care of her and accommodated all of her needs for several years before her passing in 2013. 2013 was also the year that her great-great granddaughter was born, making her the sixth generation alive at the time in our family.
Hi Kimberly, I appreciate how genuinely you stated that it is very difficult to address all the issues in Maria 's story. The issue of immigration is complex and it generates a multitude of events. It is for this reasons that topics such as the health care and the immigration are the still on the debates table of elections for the last decades. Merjona
In Elissa 's case her mother 's determination for her daughter to be born in us, a desire so strong that she crossed the border while pregnant. While Ellisa and Cara have documentation, Yadira, and Marsela do not. Marsela was brought over the border
America is one of the richest and safest place in the whole wide world. I was born in Egypt and came to California when I was 10 years old, I love it here. The reason I came to America was because of safety, but now that a lot of people have weapons it 's not as safe anymore. We should make a law about limiting people’s weapons and only people who actually need it shall have it.
My mom came to the United States with no money to her name. She came here in search for a better life. No one helped her, she did it all on her own. Not speaking the language or being educated it wasn 't easy raising a child in a place which is so unknown to you
When I was six years old, living in Ethiopia, my dad won an American green card visa lottery among 53,000 people. Although it was exciting news, family members were discouraged because my dad could not afford the visa processing and traveling expense. However, he found a sponsor in Seattle, which allowed him to settle in America. As soon as he found a good house and a stable job, he started the process for me and my family. Multiple errors and obstacles delayed our processing for five years.
I became interested in this topic because both my parents came from Mexico to Los Angeles in 1975. They both wanted to have better economic opportunities in the US and wanted to achieve the “American Dream.” As my father and mother both settled in Los Angeles, both acquired jobs working
In 1986, a 16 year old girl named Collette journeyed from her home in the island nation of the Bahamas in order to study chemical engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She was following the wishes of her father and pursuing higher education and a better life in the United States. Her story is one of many, a testament to the strength and prosperity of the United States. Some come here legally, some come illegally, but all share one thing, they believe that this country can provide them and their families with a better future than their home country.
The first eight years of my life, I spent in India where I was born. Growing up I was constantly reminded by my parents that I needed to make them proud by getting a good job and living a good lifestyle. They told me this because they did not want to see me live a hard life like they did. When I was nine years old, I moved from India to the United States of America. The reason why I moved to America was not because I was living a bad life in India, it was so that I could have a better education and more opportunities in life.
As I ponder over my life, each memory seems identical to the other, and I find myself drifting through a reality of similar events that generate the same memories and emotions. Looking back further into my childhood includes memories of my homeland. I remember entering a new world at the age of five, where all of my later memories would be formed. This was when my family moved to the United States from Peru, my native country in the South. The complete change in culture and values truly impacted me when I first moved to Florida, and I reflect over the significant effect it has had on my character during the last thirteen years of my life.
Through family-sponsored immigration, a U.S. citizen can sponsor his or her spouse, parents, brothers and sisters. Lots of people from my country come here through marriages, so then they are able to sponsor their family members to the U.S. and experience a better life. Therefore, the amount of my country’s immigrants increase year by year. In conclusion, if we add up the economic benefits, job opportunities and improved standard of living, we will have a desirable place to live for anyone who was born into a third world country.
My Journey to America Moving from Nigeria to the United States permanently feels great, but at the same time it is sad leaving some of your loved ones and family behind. There are many events in life, which can change one’s way of thinking. As for me, one of the major changes in my life occurred when I moved from Africa to America. This change has entirely affected my personality positively. Why?
Moving to a new country can be difficult sometimes. Leaving all my relatives and friends back home was the saddest thing for me. My mother told me that we were moving to a new country. At first, I thought my mother was joking about it. but little did I know that she was telling the truth.
In 1968, a person named Ahmed Mohsin my Grandpa left everything in Yemen and started a new life in the Untied States. He was in his upper 40's,uneducated, and was no stranger to hard work. Due to his inadequate circumstance my Grandpa worked many uninterrupted restless years, just to make sure his family had a livable environment once they came. He worked for most of his life to provide his family with a better future because he knew this was a land of opportunity.