Mexican Immigrants: Living The American Dream

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Immigrants are people who have left everything behind in their own homes to move into another foreign country where probably there not welcomed into society.However they don't care ,because they came into this new country where they must break every single bone in their body to take care of their family. In the United States a number of Mexicans have come to the United States to find the hopes of living the American Dream.This Mexican immigrants are said to be a problem because they taking people's jobs.But why were the jobs opened? The jobs were open because the main population of America doesn't want to do anything.Everyday Mexican immigrants wake up before the sun rises just to get to work,no matter the pay they work as they were working

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