immigration

Reasons for Immigration Coming from a life of poverty and despair would cause anyone to search for a better life; a life in which there is the belief that all of your dreams can come true. This is the belief that many Mexican immigrants had about “El Norte,” they believed that the north would provide them with the opportunity that their life in Mexico had not. Many Immigrants believed that the United States was “the …

…United States; they only shared the good news (Davis, 40). As one man stated, “I want to return home more than anything else,” (Light, 56). For those who did not stay in the United States, they returned home to their villages and towns and worked, but for those who did stay they tried to carry on and live the “American dream” in hopes that they would someday find the “Paradise” that they had heard so much about.