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Immigration from Different Perspectives

8 Pages 2018 Words November 2014

industries. Like restaurants, landscaping, construction, in the fielded, etc. As Well Gonzalez describes some reasons that pushes Latino American immigrants to immigrate to the United States. Gonzalez asserts, that one reason is because Latin America are going through a catastrophic crisis. This causes the Latino immigrants decide to come to the United States looking for better employment opportunities and more money. Gonzalez describes " a Mexican, travel back and forth each year from a small farm in Sonora to work in the grape fields of California at harvest time  (page 221). Gonzalez shows that this immigrant come to the United States looking for a better paying job to survive, not to stay. Gonzalez affirms, that many Latin American families do not have another option to migrate to the United States to survive. According to the United Nation Economic Commission for Latin America, the living conditions in these countries are deplorable and more than 40 percent living in poverty. Gonzales points out, "In some villages and urban neighborhoods of the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America almost every family has someone working up North and sending money back home to feed those left behind  (Page 219). Gonzalez add the Latinos in the United States send more money to their home countries than the money that U.S government spend helping poor people in all the nation and around the world. Another reason that pushes Latino Americans to immigrate to the United States is the violence in their countries. Today, this violence is affecting children especially. As a result these children try to im...

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