Migration to the U.S.: An Interview

I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could get any better job since he had not yet finish school so the only job he probably might had was a job that pay the same he was been pay at my grandfather farm. Therefore, he chooses to take the only opportunity that he saw best for a better future for the child he had to migrate to the United States. I can say that politically was not the issues socially I can say was just not giving his child the same life he had when he was young. My father situation I can say was similar to what happen in some of the reading in class how the economic circumstances makes a person to seek a future away from his home land on the other hand some of the reading did not compare to my father situation because some of the people that were portray in the readings migrated to the U.S.A base on political and social struggling, people who try to escape their country that was been dominated by a government that violet their right. In Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez clearly presents these problems. In chapter 3 Cuba...

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...s a 50 ,50 chances take from instance elections of President Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Soto mayor, they both come from family who migrated and had lower incomes and struggles . They worked hard took that stereotyping and turned around into something positive. We have now a African American president and a Latina as part of the U.S system. I see it as a major step but at same time not something new there are just part of the other millions of Latinos about there who came before them a strive for better example marter luter king he started the movement for equality and others started women rights . Obama and Soto major are just a small fish in the ocean I think we have made one step fower but two step back because there is still much very much work to be done but if they did it I can do it to is like a ways of motivation and to vision more .