The Role Of Immigrants In The Jungle

The immigration experience in the early 20th century was much different than any of the immigrants expected. Many immigrants expected America to be very nice and clean, with extremely kind people and exceptional job opportunities. When they arrived, they found America to be completely different from what they had envisioned. In The Jungle, Lithuanian immigrants One and Jurgis travel to America with their families to havfe their wedding and find work. At their wedding they encounter the first of many unpleasant U.S. citizens. The saloon owner gives them a keg of beer from a different night that is only half full although he claims it is full and fresh. People took every opportunity they could to take advantage of innocent immigrants who did not know any better. Immigrants are taken advantage of in numerous ways. The most common way is being given much lower wages than the average American citizen. Immigrants today make up eleven percent of all United States residents, and fourteen percent of all workers in
A Chinese immigrant named Jiang Zhenxing was pregnant and awaiting deportation so she could give birth in her home country with her family. Her requests were ignored daily by the immigration center until they discovered she was three months pregnant. After that, she was moved to the top of the list and was separated from her husband. He was not given any information about what was happening to her or even that they had taken her to the airport to be deported. Reports claim that she was pushed around and hit in the stomach twice by ICE officials. The woman then reported severe stomach pains and requested medical attention, but once again, her requests were denied. Eventually she was given medical attention, but at that point it was too late and the woman had miscarried. It was only after all of that had happened that the officials decided to contact her husband