Immigration Film

The documentary film that we are watching in class motivated me in many ways.  My mother and I are extremely close; I asked her a few questions about immigration and coming to the United States.  It’s crazy how things worked out, my mother come back and forth from Mexico and the States countless times without documents.  The last time she immigrated and stayed forever was when I was born on September 15, 1990.  My mother stated that my family moved to the United States for my siblings and myself.  They wanted us to have the best future and have a titled job. My parent’s goal for us is not to have to work ourselves as hard as they have to support my siblings and I.  Both of my parents have very tiring jobs my mother is a housekeeper and my father is a mechanic.  My mother said that many people in Mexico think of the States of a place where dreams do come true because in Mexico one can only get far in life if one’s family is wealthy.  This is one of the many reasons why my family came here.

            According to the Pew Research Center, about 11.2 immigrants from Mexico immigrated to the United State in 2008.  However, the film gave us much useful information that made me strive to help immigrant families succeed.   I have learned that we should not judge these humans and kick them out from our country.  These immigrants from all over the world, I feel like they are not harming us, I strongly feel like the ones who are here to make a better living do jobs that we citizens think we are to good for.  In also many of the young ones are here to get educated and that’s a great thing because that means that many of them can go back to Mexico and try to make it a better country.  One can see that many immigrants are here to earn and save a little of American many to take back to Mexico.  The same Pew Research Center also stated that 433,000 immigrants went back home in 2008.  I don’t feel like many of them are affecting our economic, they just come and go.

            If we put ourselves in their position I would want to be accepted, also I would want to receive the most help I could as an immigrant student to succeed in life.  Immigrants have to wake up with a fear every morning hoping that they are not deported from the United States.  Like I have mention earlier in this blog, hopefully once I graduate this year in May I get the opportunity to do this internship in LA working with immigrant families.  The organization that I’m applying for is located in Los Angles and was started by immigrants from EL Salvador.       

CH 7questions

11)   What disease did the immigrants in Hamburg have? How many humans did it kill?

22)   The ships in the 20^th century were different how? What immigrants in the 20^th century still traveled in the old ships?

33)   What did the immigrants in Liverpool have to go through before coming to the States?

44)   Where did most of the Arabs live in the U.S?  What did they do for a living and what did they sell?

CH 7

Chapter 7

·      Single individuals immigrated from Europe for the economic opportunity

·      Immigrants from Russia, Ireland, Italy, and Poland were use to living in urbanized cities. 

·      1907, Europeans had four main ports for immigrants which where, Naples, Bremen, Liverpool, and Hamburg.

·      The year of July 1, 1906- June 30, 1907 more then a million and a quarter immigrants entered the States.

·      Liverpool, immigrants were housed, fed, and medically examined before coming to the United States. (Waiting for their ship)

·      Other immigrants who deported from Germane, but were non-Germans had to go through a double examination.  This was because in Hamburg immigrants had a disease that killed over nine thousand humans.

·       The 20^th century the immigrant ships were cleaner and were also run better, the immigrants also had privacy in the ship, However, not all ships were up to date, Ships who deported from the French, Italy, and Germany, had the horrible ships, their passengers faced the worst conditions.

·      The price of tickets went down around the time of war, it was 10 dollars to deport from Liverpool.

·      The highest peak of immigrants coming to the United States, 1901-10, 1.5 million immigrants come in, 6.5 from all over Europe, 2 million from Italy.

·      Some Italians did not come to the United States some went to Argentina and Brazil.  

·      Italians work skills were artisans and glassblowers.

·      Philip Mazzie(1730-1816) physician and scholar who was told by Benjamin Franklin to go to Virginia, start an Italian agricultural products: silk culture, wine grapes, and olives.

·      Italian musicians, Lorenzo de Ponte, Supervised the first American opera house, professor at Columbia University.  

·      1880-1920 4.1 million Italians were recorded coming to the United States.

·      Italians, important contributions to the U.S Capital in Washington, British burn it down in 1814.

·      20^th Century Italians own land

·      The Italians immigrants in California introduced new crops and techniques to the world. 

·      Italian immigrant named Amadeo Pietro Giannini started Bank of America

·      Greeks brought their culture with them when immigrated to United States.

·      Started immigrating in 1890, most who immigrated were males, most of them just come to work for a bit in the states then returned back home.

·      Greeks worked in railroad construction gangs, textile mills, meat-packing, and shoe shining.

·      A lot of Greeks also started many restaurants,

·      Arabs were one of the emigrants who brought a lot of women with them compared to the other ethnicities. 

·      The Arabs worked as peddlers, would sell costume jewelry, and notions many others small items.

·      The Armenians were immigrant farmer workers.

·      Many come to Fresno California, would farm there.