immigrants

Historically, The United States of America around 1600 was the land where millions of immigrants came to settle and to create the colonies that now became in the states that form the US. Millions of these immigrants came from different parts of Europe, who brought more immigrants as their slaves and servants. After a lot of years of marginalization, racism and abuses, The United States of America was proclaimed a land free of slavery, but most importantly, it was labelled the land of opportunities and freedom. However, after many years of being part of slavery, abuses, and marginalization those that now have the privilege of being called “Americans” have forgotten all what their ancestors lived during the colonial era, where The United States had an environment of injustices and abuses. Nowadays, immigration is a social issue that is affecting a lot of Latin American families that live in The United States. Talking about immigration is going back to the time where the border line started to divide not only two countries, but the bonds between family members, who in their pursuit of happiness they ended being discriminated, oppressed, and separated of their families.
For decades, people have been fighting to mark the end of an inequality era where governments and the most powerful people has forgotten that we all are human beings, with the same need of wanting a better life for us and our families. For different reasons people from different parts of the world come every day to this country looking for freedom, more opportunities to succeed, and to achieve the American dream. Some of these people have the luck to come to this country with a magic key that some people call, legal documentation. But, some of them have to cross the Am...

... middle of paper ...

... not always were considered the cause of American problems. In some point of The United States history, the first immigrants were considered the most powerful people who after settled in these lands, built what now we know as America. It is very difficult to understand in what moment and the reasons that “Americans” had to forgot that they or their ancestors were part of the immigration movement too when they came to this country. The American history helps to understand and to know moments of the history that perhaps, many people ignore about the immigration movement. Even though, laws as the immigration reform (Sb-1070) and other types of laws that try to mark differences between the society, immigrants fight to show they are hard workers and they are very brave to endure all kinds of abuse and marginalization with the purpose of making true their American dream.