America has always been the country everyone looked to with eyes of lust for freedom and dreams, especially Latin Americans. Growing up in Latin American country one may experience everything for violence to issues within the household. However, the main threats come when decides take initiative and leave his/her home for their own purposes. Many Latin Americans who decide to leave their home leave knowing they could die in the desert, be deported, killed by on-going violence throughout Mexico; however, many decide to try their luck because their life back home is not that good either, from family issues, crime,money/jobs, and environmental safetiness, being born in Latin America forces you to look to the U.S. as a place where all your problems
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Edgar may have met his mother but was separated from her shortly after. On the other hand there are those who survive deportation and manage to stay in America. In the documentary called Which Way Home, it shows a mother who made it to California when her daughter was young. Their separation did not show its results until they were finally reunited. The love that there before was no longer existent. The mother was asked was it worth it, and even though she accomplished something many die trying, she replied essentially losing family is equivalent to getting into America. So one may ask in the end it worth leaving, what is in America that makes risking your family and life …show more content…
From poverty to crime, one can find themselves in any situation. When a person decides to leave all they have, they either see it has a fresh start or their last option. Near the Mexican-American border “ life is dominated by the presence of American manufacturers”*, just “south of the United States border, where maquiladoras- plants be marketed in the United States”*. In Rio Grande, lies “a flat industrial city of perhaps 300,000 people”* . With all the booming business one may assume that life there must be amazing, but that is not the case. In the areas surrounding the Maquiladoras, “the shacks are made of scraps discarded from the factories”* , but Maquiladoras were considered to have the highest wages in Mexico(Latin America), so what type of life did this provide the people. For those who had to “live in cities built on industrial waste”*, they suffered from miscarriage, birth defects, disease, and cancer rates are high”*; but the wages provide a sustainable life. A maquila worker could never sustain an exceptional life. They labored “forty-five minutes for quart of milk or a pound of chicken, two hours for bottle of shampoo, three hours for two boxes of cornflakes or a toddler’s used sweater, twenty hours for sneakers, and over a hundred for a double
Edgar may have met his mother but was separated from her shortly after. On the other hand there are those who survive deportation and manage to stay in America. In the documentary called Which Way Home, it shows a mother who made it to California when her daughter was young. Their separation did not show its results until they were finally reunited. The love that there before was no longer existent. The mother was asked was it worth it, and even though she accomplished something many die trying, she replied essentially losing family is equivalent to getting into America. So one may ask in the end it worth leaving, what is in America that makes risking your family and life …show more content…
From poverty to crime, one can find themselves in any situation. When a person decides to leave all they have, they either see it has a fresh start or their last option. Near the Mexican-American border “ life is dominated by the presence of American manufacturers”*, just “south of the United States border, where maquiladoras- plants be marketed in the United States”*. In Rio Grande, lies “a flat industrial city of perhaps 300,000 people”* . With all the booming business one may assume that life there must be amazing, but that is not the case. In the areas surrounding the Maquiladoras, “the shacks are made of scraps discarded from the factories”* , but Maquiladoras were considered to have the highest wages in Mexico(Latin America), so what type of life did this provide the people. For those who had to “live in cities built on industrial waste”*, they suffered from miscarriage, birth defects, disease, and cancer rates are high”*; but the wages provide a sustainable life. A maquila worker could never sustain an exceptional life. They labored “forty-five minutes for quart of milk or a pound of chicken, two hours for bottle of shampoo, three hours for two boxes of cornflakes or a toddler’s used sweater, twenty hours for sneakers, and over a hundred for a double