Immigrant Interview Report

Immigrants are created through hardships, weather they be monetary, location based, or otherwise. They are a breed of people created through circumstance. This reigns true for a recent interviewee of mine from Chihuahua, Marianna. A girl only the age of 16 who, by definition, moved from her own country for permanent residence in the US. After an extensive (short) interviewing process I was than asked to compare either a personal story of immigration within my family or broadly relate the hardships of an old school mexican immigrant that goes by the handle of a “Bracero”. To that of the experiences of Marianna. Seeing as how I lack the one to one equivalence to relate to any form of an immigrant I will be comparing my dad's upbringing (or lack
Let me start off by saying my old man did not have the most ideal of childhoods,he lived in a corner of LA named Carson and grew up in a household with his grandparents after his folks split and his mom decided that was the best place for him. He grew up without proper or should we say ideal parents and was a constant trouble maker. He was in an uncomfortable world/place he didn't necessarily understand or fit into. He had many stipulations such as not having a father being, being an outsider, and not really having anyone there for him.
On the other side of the coin we have Marianna, from what I gathered during my short interview with her she emigrated for the chance of a better education. She came over with her two parents and settled here. She explained to us that her biggest barrier was that of language, she surely was not comfortable with the English language as for most of the interview she had been speaking in Spanish. She went on to reveal that she felt little to no discrimination from other students or the community in general, which to an extent somewhat surprised