A Better Life
- yahaira ramirez
- glendale
- MEXICO
- 18
Many people come to the United States to get a better life. Most of the immigrants cross-rivers, jump trains, Or even worse they travel by the desert. Many of them don’t really make it to the United States. One of my parents is an immigrant.
My mom has eighteen years living here. My mom came here when she was pregnant of me. My mom had been living in Texas at the age of twenty years old. My mom wasn’t a stable person. She would go to Mexico back and forward. She decided to come to the United States when her sister had gotten in an accident. She came to live here in 1989. My mother didn’t know she was pregnant of me when she came here she was about 5 months of pregnancy.
When I was born she lived with my uncles and she was a single parent. She worked duri9ng the night to raise me because there wasn’t a father in my life. A year later after being here she met my stepfather, after meeting him we went to live with him at the city of Pasadena.
My stepfather is from Nicaragua, Managua. When he was twenty years old he decided to come to the United States. After the devastated war at his country and serving for the military he was tired of seeing people die every time they went to attack was such a painful thing to watch. One of the reasons that really led him to leave the country was when he saw the enemy torturing his cousin and watching how they cruelly killed him. When my stepfather’s younger brother turned fifteen he didn’t want him to be in the military, he decided that it was better for him to come with him to the United States. My uncle and father travel on their own they crossed the river but always protecting his younger brother. When they crossed to the United States it was a day after new years. Spending Christmas crossing the border it was a sad thing for both of my uncle and father. Even though they left the ones they loved they left for a good reason. My father did everything to get his papers in order. As soon as he came here he achieve what he wanted, he makes good money and has a good job. In my uncles case he went to Glendale high school graduated and now he is a business man, he is his own boss and also makes good money.
People from other countries come for a purpose. It is not bad to come to the United States if we want a better life. What is not correct are the gang bangers that come to make this community more corrupted than it already is. There’s a positive and negative side to this, but in my opinion I think the only thing that matters are the people that come here to make a better thing of them. Even though my grandparents once lived here they thought it was better to go back to Mexico even though this country gives good opportunities to success in life they couldn’t live without being in their land. We should all appreciate where we are and where we come from.