Immigration Synthesis Essay

Every immigrant's dream is to come to the U.S. and be successful, but not all can make it, due to not being able to speak or understand English. Felix Sanchez de la Vega Guzman, Zhang Yulong, and Kim Ki Chol, all came to the U.S. with immensely different backgrounds, but they had the same goal in mind, the American dream. The author expresses that it is possible to make it in the United States without English. Throughout the article, the author explains the background on all three of the men and gives evidence to support his argument that no English is needed to be successful in America. It is clear that the author's motive is to show that immigrants can make it in America without English. Semple states that the advancement of technology has been a key factor in the success of bilingual immigrants. To help his argument the author uses conflicting positions to express his thoughts on bilingual immigrants. In paragraph 11 Semple states that "4.5 million income-earning adults who were heads of household spoke English ‘not well' or ‘not at all,' " (Semple 649). He also explains that "about 35,500 out of the 4. 5 million had household incomes of more than 200,000 a year" (Semple 649). Based on these statistics, not a lot of people are successful. Semple targets American citizens to show the many obstacles immigrants face …show more content…
The author first introduces Felix Sanchez de la Vega Guzman an uneducated immigrant from Mexico. He introduces Mr. Sanchez first because he feels that Americans would approve of him more. Semple feels that Mr. Sanchez would appeal to Americans because he puts in the effort to try to be American. Semple states that "Mr. Sanchez always wanted to learn English but had no time for lessons" (Semple 648). An American reader would say "oh, at least he tried". Also by telling the reader about Mr. Sanchez passing his American citizenship