Why Mexicans Came To Chicago

America is often looked at in grand admiration as the home for a mighty melting pot of different people and their cultures. It is historically famous for being refuge for any type of people looking for a better life for themselves. It is a nation built from the ground up by hard-working immigrant hands, who came simply in the pursuit of life, liberty, happiness, and the American Dream. Every few generations, clusters of immigrants would flock to the country for that same simple reason; the dream. The “American dream” is often understood to be a sort of rags to riches tale of a person who leaves everything they have known their entire lives for a chance at success they could never imagine having in their own home country. While it is extremely
With a corrupt government, a country full of volatile and dangerous people, one of the remaining reasons to appease citizens would be because they at the very least had a stable and secure job. During this time in Mexican history, however, the jobs at home were scarce. While Diaz did manage to introduce a large amount to the country what with the railroad construction and all the exporting business, it just did not seem to be enough to keep his citizens employed. Often what happened is that many people in the working class would have education and skill to go into a workforce that was above settling for such hard labor, the government was simply locking its own citizens out of growth. As the broadening in economic ties with America negatively affected the Mexican economy, it benefitted the Mexican citizens. While some people may have wanted to leave based on rumors of a better life or maybe even because they wanted a fresh start in their lives, people left mostly because they needed jobs and they knew that the American was immeasurably thriving. (Henderson 2) On top of that, “Mexicans were enticed by American employers who offered them work for better wages than at home.” (Henderson 8) These people were not going to stand by and watch their economy deplore rapidly. No, the people knew that they were better off leaving and making money is whatever field they could get. Regardless of what it was, they would most likely be making much more than where they lives. People knew that the American agriculture had been done almost entirely by Mexicans. (Henderson 22) They could all see the opportunity America was holding right at their very feet. There was opportunity, and they could definitely be a part of the growth. “All the new railroads being built consisted of railroad crew almost entirely of immigrants.” (Henderson