The American Dream

       

The American Dream

            Immigrants come to the United States to find better opportunities and maybe even accomplished their own American dream. They came here because they will hear or see stories of how people had prosper just by coming to the United States. It seemed like almost everyone owned a house, had a couple of nice vehicles and could provide a comfortable lifestyle for their family members. But as soon as immigrants come here they realized that over here is totally different than how they pictured it. Over here you don’t have the same opportunities if you are an immigrant as if you were born in the United States.                                                     One story that I found is the one of Sergio Garcia that resides in California and wants to become a lawyer so he could practice law in California. They hired him in attorney buffet but it is against the law because he is illegal immigrant. He really wants to become a lawyer but he is far from becoming one soon enough. Maybe if he was a little bit younger than he would qualify for the dream act that has help students with good standing in high school go to the university. That is one part of the American dream to be able to study and do the profession you want to do without people telling you that you could just not do that because you are an illegal immigrant. But there is many people like Sergio Garcia that wish to practice the law or any other profession but they have the qualifications of been a proper citizen or having a permanent resident status.

            Throughout time the immigrants see that this American dream has a long journey ahead of them and it is not going to be easy to achieve it. But each person might have different circumstances or decisions that they had to take leading them to come to the United States, but almost every person that comes here has one thing on mind and that is to prosper in this land. Latin American immigrants come here more often because it is the nearest place where they know they could prosper because in their towns or countries sometimes they live in poverty and they don’t have the same resources.