Illegal Latino American Immigrants: Article Analysis

Jicy Mathew
11/14/13
Professor Kahn
SP0868
The Struggles of Illegal Latino American Immigrants The rapid growth of immigration to the U.S. from Latin America has increased the overall Hispanic population of the U.S. Immigration from Latin American and the growth of Hispanics are one of the most important and controversial developments in recent history of the United States. In 2005, there were nearly 40 million Hispanic immigrants and descendants of Hispanic immigrants living in the U.S (Pew Hispanic Center, 2006). It is true that there are many push and pull factors that play a role for immigrants to come to the United States such as to leave poverty and unemployment in their homelands in search of better living opportunities
Espenshade, Espenshade describes the public opinion toward the unauthorized migrants. Americans in general always had a conflicting attitude to the idea of immigrants coming over to the United States. Although the United States is recognized to be a melting pot of immigrants from all over the world, many people are skeptics over the thought of having people coming into the country in recent years. Thomas Espenshade (1993) explains that there has been little change when it comes to the public’s opinion towards unauthorized migrants. The public views immigrants to take away low wage jobs from native-born Americans and they add to the poverty population, and that the public would have to compete with immigrants for health and other social services. In the California Proposition 187, was an initiative to create a screening followed by the state of California to disable undocumented immigrants from using services such as health care, public education and other services provided by the state of California. This shows that even though the country of the United States is known to be the land of opportunity, immigrants such as these were deterred from using public institutions, which deteriorated the education system, health system of these immigrants. They come to the US seeking a better life, but it turns out a lot harder than what it really
More than a thousand Mexican workers moved to the suburban town of Farmingville seeking job opportunities in construction, landscaping and restaurant industries. The community of Farmingville started getting a rise in tension with the largest influx of Mexican workers. It came to the point where the community of Farmingville became tired and aggravated with the mass number of Mexicans, that they confronted with violence to push them out of the town. The violence of brutally stabbing and beating an individual shows the hate the community has on undocumented immigrants. There were immigrant activists who did take part to support the day workers to counter the harassment and fight for their rights. Co-producer Carlos Sandoval explains, “This is the latest battle over the American Dream, one that puts every American town on the front line of deciding just who shares-and who controls—the