The Negative Aspects Of Immigration

Immigration is the voluntary movement of people from one country to another, usually with the aim of permanent settlement in the adopted country. Through out the years many people have migrated to find a better life; start a whole new life, just like tribes used to move hundreds of years ago in order to survive. Although they say you have to value where you are from, sometimes the places we are from do not make the best out of us. Like Nelson Mandela once said, “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become the outlaw.” People seek for help, most of them migrating north . However what many people do not know is the struggle and harsh conditions all those immigrants go through to accomplish their …show more content…
Over the past years more and more children have been reported to cross the boarder all by themselves and its sad because some of them can not even make it. Their bodies can not stand the amount of pain the heat and long walks cause them. Then their mothers have to be in pain because their children’s dreams destroyed their lives. The mothers “ laid pink paper flowers on a lonely stretch of train tracks to mourn their lost children. As the train passed, crushing the flowers, the mothers stood on the hot gravel siding and watched.” (P.J Tobia (1)) These kids escaped their country because they felt threaten but they never thought that migrating was going to be worse. Although young lives are lost, many do make it. However, those who do are most likely to get caught by the border patrols which also becomes a problem. Some would think the patrol would have sympathy for the little kids, however they see the kids as any other adult. The patrols “because of the massive increase in child migrants, children often spend weeks in what are essentially jail cells... some children have no access to blankets or hot meals during this time.” (5) They might be in American soil but the opportunites they thought they would have do not make themselves present at any …show more content…
There was a young Guatemalan boy that was being threaten in his home town so he had decided to travel to the united states all alone with a coyote, the traffickers. His way here was rough “He fled barefoot on the trackside gravel and walked an hour to a village, where, his feet bleeding, he pleaded for a pair of shoes.”(Ian Gordon (7)) Those are some things most of the men and women that travel have to go through. But thats not all the young boy had to go through, the coyote forced him to strap a load of marijuana so he could pass it over the boarder, he had no choice. However when the young boy saw the patrols approaching, he rapidly dropped it . Other boys arent as smart, they will get caught with the marijuana and then get send to jail. The young boy was sent to school while his court case and deportation papers were getting fixed. The shelters and schools you would walk by are a little different, “and you think it 's just an old nursing home, and it 's actually all these immigrant kids who are detained inside." (15) When one hears “school” , one might think its a better place than being placed in a cell, however, The young boy said he was mistreated in one of those shelters. Some reports also showed that many of children showed signs of depression. One study found that 58