Immigrants Coming To America

Immigrants are not a new phenomenon here in the United States, yet Americans still treat the subject as of it is some great anomaly. From the time of the colonists to the present day, historians can come to the conclusion that even the British were once immigrants in the New World. With the objective of obtaining land, the British had traveled to an unknown uncharted island that had already been inhabited by Native Americans. The dictionary definition that has been given to the word “immigrant” is “a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country”. Needless to say, even the Founding Fathers had once been immigrants. Though with this definition in mind, perspective often changes and shapes the way immigrants are viewed.

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His wife had come to America on a working visa. She attended college in the Philippines and had graduated with her Bachelors In Science In Nursing. Much like him, she started working abroad to support her family. Not only supporting her children, but her parents as well as extended family. This was the common occurrence among immigrants that came to America or other countries, to support not only their family but extended relatives as well. When coming to America, the fears that reaped her mind can be defined in one word: alone. With no other relatives, and only a handful of newfound acquaintances, one of the hardest obstacles of being an immigrant is coping with the fact that you are now alone. Coping with this, his wife had lived in a small studio apartment by herself. She did not spend much time conversing with her neighbors, trying to get to know each one of them. Nor did she really spend time at home, her home away from the studio apartment was the nursing …show more content…
And my siblings can recall every moment that I cried in their care while our father was at work. When the news of my mother’s petition being approved reached the Philippines, things moved rather quickly. My father began to pack his things and the house we all lived in began to empty of its inhabitants. On the aspect of arriving together, that did not happen. By order, my siblings arrived first. My sister can vividly recall the feeling of anxiety and fear that struck her. These feelings are common in everyone, however in foreigners, this feeling normally comes from unfamiliarity. With my mother, the feeling of fear and anxiety was caused by the idea of being alone, much like anyone who decides to start anew. Traveling alone is something that most adults are familiar with, however most teenagers are not. A thirteen year old girl accompanied by an eleven year old boy were escorted by friendly flight attendants onto American soil. Being escorted and aided by flight attendants is no new process, however those who are most familiar with it are mostly teenagers and