Coming to America Chapters 1 and 2

The main thing that stood out to me in this writing was the point about how we have become more and more unfriendly towards immigrants coming in to the United States. This part struck me in particular since I am Mexican. Even though there are Canadians and Europeans and other people who are immigrating illegally, Mexicans are just the ones that come to mind since there has been such an ordeal with the border and such. The people who are already living in the US forget that their ancestors had to immigrate here a long time ago too. Because they also wanted a better life for whatever reason. But now we have this kind of "I'm better than you" attitude that ha causes us to highly look down upon immigration for the past century or so. I understand that the illegal immigration is a difficult subject, but reading this text reminds us that we are all immigrants to this country.