Fleeing Violence

    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 and better economic place to live.  

    It has been known in the past years of violence occurring not only in Mexico but also in central and South America.  According to Viridiana Rios Contreras in The Role of Drug-Related Violence and Extortion in Promoting Mexican Migration, "An important number of Mexicans are relocating to the United States, and to other cities within their country, to escape drug-related homicides and criminal activity that has spiked since 2008".  Many people migrate from Mexico, they are looking for a safer place to live.  Although most that migrate are living in poverty they do whatever they can so that they can reach a safer place to live.  Unfortunately, some die in the process while others make it.  Brining their young children with them to grow up in a safer environment.  

    Migrants face many difficulties on arrival.  Many if not all have felt the rejection and profiling of the USA.  Many due to the language barrier get deported.  Wasting all the time and money they used to make it to the states.  While many stay and put their children in school, others suffer the desperation of not seeing their loved ones who they left back at home.  Many have felt the rejection of the United States, from stares to violence.  The violence they once ran from they find sometimes in the United States.  Immigrants come in search of work.  Although people from the States think that immigrants are just here to take their jobs.  According to Hotchkiss, Quispe-Agnoli & Rios-Avila, in The Wage Impact of Undocumented Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data, "Concerns surrounding immigration are rooted in the expectation that the arrival of new workers into a labor market would displace native workers and/or put downward pressure on wages".  Migrants are frowned upon because citizens firmly believe that migrants are going to take their jobs.  Although these migrants are doing hard labor like picking apples and gardening.  Migrants are then profiled and sometimes deported.

    When children arrive in America, they are the ones with a higher percentage and expectation to succeed.    Being so young they are put in school where they learn the unknown language, English.  And most of the time become the interpreters of their parents.  Many don't go back to their native country unless they are deported.  Many stay in the United States and become part of DACA or get married and eventually become residents.  While many get deported, it is hard when they were brought to the United States as chi8ldren and then deported to a country they don't remember.  This happened to Maria Garcia Juarez from Guanajuato, Mexico.  According to the article, American dream, Mexican nightmare: A Michigan mom's life after deportation, "Juarez spent her entire life in the United States after her mother smuggled her across the border when she was eight months old".  Juarez is terrified because she has never stepped foot in Mexico until now after she got deported.  Although she tries to adjust, it will not be the same as living a comfortable life in the United States.  

    For families to feel safe they feel the need to escape life in their origin country.  While others are feeling the profile and rejection of looking for a safe place to be with their children.  Many suffer during the migration process.  But what is the best way to come to a country without feeling this rejection?  While the United States is willing to take refugees from all countries except Mexico.  Seems like they are not leaving another option to the people in search of the American Dream that are right over the border.