Immigrants Are More Successful Than You

Immigrants are more successful than you! There is a copious amount of immigrants that are very successful. People might be questioning how can that be? Immigrants come to America with nothing in their pockets, and they don't know english. Dig deeper and it will make sense! Many people today will argue that success should be measured by the amount of wealth or fame a person can have. The richer a person is, the more successful he/she will becomes to our eyes. An immigrant’s success is measure by the positive influence a person can have on other people's lives. On a relative, a friend, or a co-worker, an immigrant could influence the life of others just by showing the importance of things such as learning and speaking another language or bringing …show more content…
He leaves at five am and gets home at six pm. He works 13hrs a day , and he works 6 days a week. He does not get a good paycheck because he does not have the correct papers to be working. Eighty hours would not give you the best lifestyle, but it gives you enough to maintain a household and maintain a family. There were times it got hard for him ,but he had a focus. His family was what was motivating him to work hard. All his sweats, tears, and broken bones payed off. He is now able to not worry too much about , if he should spend his money and buy little goodies to make him feel good .He is also able to provide so much more for his family and spend more time with them because he works less hours than what he worked …show more content…
In 2002, Daniel Griswold, the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at The Cato Institute in Washington, DC, wrote an article describing the influence that immigrants have in the American work force and explained how it is normal to find successful immigrants occupying high-skilled positions on fields such as medicine, physics, and computer science as well as lower skilled jobs such as hotels and restaurants, domestic service, and construction, in some cases even jobs that Americans cannot fill. Employers who are looking for ways to improve their business are constantly in the hunt for successful immigrants. In a recent article in the globe and mail newspaper it described how immigrants were able to help the recover the Canadian economy, by bringing new skills to Canada, including language, cultural abilities, knowledge, and networks (Nixon & D'Alessandro, 2009). Successful immigrants had been able to overcome many obstacles and influence the mentality of many around the world who had argued that new immigrants could be a problem for their country to the point where immigrants are now look with respect and accepted as an important part of the