Struggles Mexicans Suffer Trying To Reach The American Dream

    Immigrants have migrated from Mexico since the beginning of time.  Although migration doesn't just come from people in Mexico.  People from all over the world come in search of the American Dream, for some is harder than others to get here.  But sometimes not even deserts or the ocean itself stops them from migrating.  In the United States, people migrate from all continents.  The majority of migration occurs due to violence that happens all over the world.  People put themselves in danger to make it to the United States.  This was the case for the migrates that were coming from Central America.  According to one of the travelers, "We haven't eaten anything in many days".  They don't have the money to buy things along the way because they are fleeing.   Sometimes migration occurs due to living in bad situations and having a bad economy in their place of origin.  They travel to the United States in search of a safe...

  My grandma tells a story of when she was 10 years old.  She lived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  Ciudad Juarez is a city that is across the border from El Paso.  She recalls playing as a child there when the border was just made of barb wire.  During this time she remembers helping people get across the "river" and would charge them 10 cents.  The people who were coming to "America", people who were in search of the "American Dream".  A dream that was talked about in the Pueblos in the country south of the border.  People making money, like it was growing from trees.  The dream that was followed by many, not knowing what impact it could potentially have in their lives or the lives of their children.  Many follow this dream but only a few succeed.  Why is that?  Is it because of their skin color?  Their language?  Or the way society portrays them?  Or could it be just a mixture of everything?  People that come ...