On page 219 of the classes anthology there is a piece entitled my life as an undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas what interest me about this work is that like Mr. Vargas there are millions of undocumented people currently residing in the United States most of which are children and the question I would like to ask is why do they leave there home countries to live a life of struggle and hardship in the US?Mr. Vargas’s who was born February 3,1981 attended the San Francisco State University he is a Journalist, Filmmaker and Activist his piece my life as an undocumented immigrant highlights his journey to the US from his home in the Philippines, His relationship with his grandparents, his relationship with his mother as she was not
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Mr. Mendez stated that a year prior his father Carlos Mendez passed away from lung cancer leaving numerous debts these debts along with the care of the family fell on the shoulders of his mother Maria Mendez and Carlos Jr. who was the oldest of six children as such his mother Maria made the difficult but necessary decision to migrate to the US leaving her five younger children in Belize with her sister Arora. Both Maria and Carlos Jr. Mendez received a HB1 visa at the American Embassy in Belize located at 4 Floral Park Road Belmopan Belize. And as previously mentioned on July 8, 2013 the pair arrived at the JFK airport both were given a stamp in there passport for a six month stay in the US after which they were picked up by a friend of Mrs. Mendez Cecelia Harris with whom they would be residing until they were able to establish themselves here in the US. According to Carlos at first all was well his mother was able to obtain a cleaning job through an employment agency and Carlos was able to acquire a job at a supermarket bagging groceries. He was also able to enroll in high school as such both mother and son were able to send money back home to Belize for the …show more content…
Mendez could also call to mind graduating from high school with no hope as all around him friends discussed what college they would be moving on to and job opportunities but he could not as he did not possess the financial means to attend college and even if he did due to the fact that he was undocumented there was no way for him to acquire a college education.As Mr. Mendez sat there recalling his time in the US I wondered about the untold stories of other undocumented immigrants and their children currently in the United States suffering from the same very same horrors I wondered why they have to leave there home countries in the first place to come to the United States therefore the answer to my question is located in the Sociology text fittingly labeled In Conflict and Order Understanding Society by Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn and Kelly Eitzen Smith and according to this text the issue of illegal immigration stems for Globalization which defined is the process of interaction and integration among people, government and companies of different nations. As the demographic changes there have been waves of immigration from third world countries like Jamaica, Belize, Brazil and
Mr. Mendez stated that a year prior his father Carlos Mendez passed away from lung cancer leaving numerous debts these debts along with the care of the family fell on the shoulders of his mother Maria Mendez and Carlos Jr. who was the oldest of six children as such his mother Maria made the difficult but necessary decision to migrate to the US leaving her five younger children in Belize with her sister Arora. Both Maria and Carlos Jr. Mendez received a HB1 visa at the American Embassy in Belize located at 4 Floral Park Road Belmopan Belize. And as previously mentioned on July 8, 2013 the pair arrived at the JFK airport both were given a stamp in there passport for a six month stay in the US after which they were picked up by a friend of Mrs. Mendez Cecelia Harris with whom they would be residing until they were able to establish themselves here in the US. According to Carlos at first all was well his mother was able to obtain a cleaning job through an employment agency and Carlos was able to acquire a job at a supermarket bagging groceries. He was also able to enroll in high school as such both mother and son were able to send money back home to Belize for the …show more content…
Mendez could also call to mind graduating from high school with no hope as all around him friends discussed what college they would be moving on to and job opportunities but he could not as he did not possess the financial means to attend college and even if he did due to the fact that he was undocumented there was no way for him to acquire a college education.As Mr. Mendez sat there recalling his time in the US I wondered about the untold stories of other undocumented immigrants and their children currently in the United States suffering from the same very same horrors I wondered why they have to leave there home countries in the first place to come to the United States therefore the answer to my question is located in the Sociology text fittingly labeled In Conflict and Order Understanding Society by Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn and Kelly Eitzen Smith and according to this text the issue of illegal immigration stems for Globalization which defined is the process of interaction and integration among people, government and companies of different nations. As the demographic changes there have been waves of immigration from third world countries like Jamaica, Belize, Brazil and