Mariah's Blog: Mariahs blog is very colorful as soon as you enter her blog you really want to read its content. What surprised me the most was the article about an immigrant woman who used a stolen security number to work in a poultry processing plant in the United States. Here you can get informed to the point the immigrants were capable of in order to immigrate.
Carolina's Blog: From this blog I read about the Irish history. I found out that the laborers from Ireland were paid about one fifth only of what could be obtained in the Unites States. Other factor and the one that led many people to immigrate was the potato famine. The consequences of the potatoe was that many people suffered and died from starvation pushing them ti immigrate.
Gaby S. Blog: The video was very surprising. You could see how the officers stop and detained those who they thought were immigrants. This act is very unfair and racist because just because you look some way doesn't mean you are from that culture. We all are equal and we all deserve equal rights and respect.
Nicole's Blog: From the video it is shoking to see how hard people live and the desperate to immigrate for a better life opprtunity. One of the bad things about immigrating was leaving all the things you owned back there at your homeland. Maybe after alot of hardworking and sacrifice you had to abandoned everything in one day just to have a better life. At least it was the best they could do. Immigrate and have an easier life.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Article by USIMMIGRATIONLAWYERS.COM
HOW TO SEEK RELEASE FROM IMMIGRATION DETENTION
In this article the lawyers are interested on helping those who are detained on islands such as The Ellis Island.
On that island people were treated badly and were detained if they didn't followed the restrictions. At least there are peolple who support those who are treated badly and have no way to escape from the detention. It is very lamentable how so many people were held as prisoners for trying to be free and happy. These lawyers are always available to help those who are detained and with such a pleasure they would try to free you unless they fall into the category that earned them the mandatory detainee status. A series of rights are listed and ways to seek the release. The lawyers are trustfull.
In this article the lawyers are interested on helping those who are detained on islands such as The Ellis Island.
On that island people were treated badly and were detained if they didn't followed the restrictions. At least there are peolple who support those who are treated badly and have no way to escape from the detention. It is very lamentable how so many people were held as prisoners for trying to be free and happy. These lawyers are always available to help those who are detained and with such a pleasure they would try to free you unless they fall into the category that earned them the mandatory detainee status. A series of rights are listed and ways to seek the release. The lawyers are trustfull.
Family Immigration
It is a family of values, hard working and respect. My family in the past was in charge of agriculture. In growing crops for themselves in the countryside. As a very good father and a one interested in succeeding and grow up as a strong family he sent her daughters to America for 5 years to get a better life. That was my grandmother. When she was 19,on 1966, she went together with other two sisters to America for a period of 5 years. The main reason for this immigration was for a better job opportunity and bring back money to their homeland for their family. She worked on a factory for those 5 years and as been told brought together with her money to the family and to start her own life back in Puerto Rico. With the money she got from America she helped her father with the agriculture. And at the age of 26 she married my grandfather.
My grandfather's brother instead immigrated to the U.S. and stayed there. He still lives in Chicago and has lived there since he was 28. There in Chicago he met his wife and he never regrets the day he immigrated to live the American Dream.
Many people like my grandmother and my uncle immigrated to the U.S. to get money for their family in Puerto Rico. Here it is shown that you need to risk your life and be brave to face anything to succeed in life. Like others my grandmother was very sucessfull and those who were not well at least they tried to live a better life. Something like this you must face when you graduate. you must risk and lose to gain and succeed.
My grandfather's brother instead immigrated to the U.S. and stayed there. He still lives in Chicago and has lived there since he was 28. There in Chicago he met his wife and he never regrets the day he immigrated to live the American Dream.
Many people like my grandmother and my uncle immigrated to the U.S. to get money for their family in Puerto Rico. Here it is shown that you need to risk your life and be brave to face anything to succeed in life. Like others my grandmother was very sucessfull and those who were not well at least they tried to live a better life. Something like this you must face when you graduate. you must risk and lose to gain and succeed.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
My Journey by Adelbert Heinrich
My father, mother and me were living happily out there in Germany although the Revolution of 1848 was equivalent to violent events. Our entire family instead immigrated to the U.S. before the revolution started. My Dad supported the revolution and one of his ideas was to have civilian liberties and adopt some lifestyles of American culture. After the Revolution's failure, my father came up with the idea of immigrating toward U.S. The major reason was that the family would have civilian liberties and he wanted a safer place for me to grow.
May 1848; I was 10 when my father came up with the idea of immigrating. The very next day we had prepared everything already. Dad had prepared us mentally for the long journey we had to walk before catching the train. He told my mom and me that we had to walk about 6 hours to get to the parade that was located 1 mile before the F&N Tunnel, where we were going to get on the train. Since there were many guards through the streets my dad was planing to leave at 11:30pm and get at the parade around 5:30am. There we would get aboard on the train at 6am.
10:30pm; Already different kinds of emotions were passing through our minds. Hapiness, sadness, some little enourmous feelings of nerves and desesperation. We spend the day drinking alot of water and eating lots of meat to be strong enough to support the long journey.
{Caption: The train with us in it passed through this tunnel best known as the F&N Tunnel. Everyone screamed so that people could get completely inside the train to prevent any tragedy.}
5:30-6:00am; Finally we had arrived to our destination. I can still remember the words of my dad when we were at the parade: "The worse part has come to an end, Thank God!" At that moment we all fainted from exhaustion, especially my mom who suffered from heart disease but thank God nothing worse happened to her.
6:00am- and so on; As my father said the bad part was over, the rest of the journey was aboard the train. Hundreds of people as well as us were aboard the train. Even though we were going to the same place, people had different reasons for immigrating to America. Some of them immigrated to get better job, to join with their family, to start a new life, to live safier and of course an easier one. Our lifes weren't at rsik anymore but still 3 individuals died while on the train. I still picture in my mind that old lady that marked my heart. She was 85 and was immigrating to die in America as she said. She wasn't proud of her homeland and her dream was to die in America. Poor lady who died from starvation 15 minutes before arriving to the steam boat that was going to take us to America. Soon we were on the boat and when I closed and opened my eyes the Dreamed land was in front of my eyes.
July 1848: Although before opening my eyes two months had passed. Two months full of agony. So many things happened I though would happened to me. We faced two storms one after another and over 50 people who died from illnes. These men were thrown to the ocean and who could see the sharks playing with them. We were lucky to have the special tickets since my father could afford it. We were treated good and had special food, but instead I felt sorry for those who sleep on the bottom level of the ship. I had some fun sometimes playing marbles and learning different languages. Then we arrived to the Ellis island where we had no problems to continue. I also felt sorry for all those who were retained and treated badly.
December 1848: Some months had passed and we were already stablelize. The first thing we did was looking for the rest of the family on the "Miniature" towns. My dad immediately looked for a job and started sucessfully as the owner of a Liquor store and I was in charge of it too.
July 1854: 6 years passed. I had turned already into an almost man. Our lifes changed drastically. We lived a better life full of hapiness and civilian liberties. During those years my father was already the owner of a chain of Liquor stores throughout the area. Sacrificing our bodies was the best thing we coud have do.
May 1848; I was 10 when my father came up with the idea of immigrating. The very next day we had prepared everything already. Dad had prepared us mentally for the long journey we had to walk before catching the train. He told my mom and me that we had to walk about 6 hours to get to the parade that was located 1 mile before the F&N Tunnel, where we were going to get on the train. Since there were many guards through the streets my dad was planing to leave at 11:30pm and get at the parade around 5:30am. There we would get aboard on the train at 6am.
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11:30pm-5:30am; Our long journey started. It was a very very long trip to get out there. My feet were alredy swollen and I felt a disastrous pain through my whole body. This was because of all the mountains we had to climb and descend through the forest this way the guards were not going to catch us. Only at the end of the mountain there were a group of guards but, we had so much luck since a series of fights were about to happen permitting us to escape from their view. The last 30 minutes of the long trip my dad grabbed me on his shoulders and kept walking with me on his back.
{Caption: The train with us in it passed through this tunnel best known as the F&N Tunnel. Everyone screamed so that people could get completely inside the train to prevent any tragedy.}
5:30-6:00am; Finally we had arrived to our destination. I can still remember the words of my dad when we were at the parade: "The worse part has come to an end, Thank God!" At that moment we all fainted from exhaustion, especially my mom who suffered from heart disease but thank God nothing worse happened to her.
6:00am- and so on; As my father said the bad part was over, the rest of the journey was aboard the train. Hundreds of people as well as us were aboard the train. Even though we were going to the same place, people had different reasons for immigrating to America. Some of them immigrated to get better job, to join with their family, to start a new life, to live safier and of course an easier one. Our lifes weren't at rsik anymore but still 3 individuals died while on the train. I still picture in my mind that old lady that marked my heart. She was 85 and was immigrating to die in America as she said. She wasn't proud of her homeland and her dream was to die in America. Poor lady who died from starvation 15 minutes before arriving to the steam boat that was going to take us to America. Soon we were on the boat and when I closed and opened my eyes the Dreamed land was in front of my eyes.
July 1848: Although before opening my eyes two months had passed. Two months full of agony. So many things happened I though would happened to me. We faced two storms one after another and over 50 people who died from illnes. These men were thrown to the ocean and who could see the sharks playing with them. We were lucky to have the special tickets since my father could afford it. We were treated good and had special food, but instead I felt sorry for those who sleep on the bottom level of the ship. I had some fun sometimes playing marbles and learning different languages. Then we arrived to the Ellis island where we had no problems to continue. I also felt sorry for all those who were retained and treated badly.
December 1848: Some months had passed and we were already stablelize. The first thing we did was looking for the rest of the family on the "Miniature" towns. My dad immediately looked for a job and started sucessfully as the owner of a Liquor store and I was in charge of it too.
July 1854: 6 years passed. I had turned already into an almost man. Our lifes changed drastically. We lived a better life full of hapiness and civilian liberties. During those years my father was already the owner of a chain of Liquor stores throughout the area. Sacrificing our bodies was the best thing we coud have do.
German Immigration
As many other immigrants the germans escaped for a better life and an easier one. At first, around the year 1700, they fleed to European countries, the West Hemisphere, and Australia due to extremely bad conditions. Politics wasn't the major reason to immigrate instead, it was the way that they were living. Sometimes entire villages were often burnt down and their inhabitants killed. In 1745, there were an estimated 45,000 Germans living in Pennsylvania. Later other Germans immigrated to the U.S. because of modernization and population growth and off course why not The American Dream. Other factors that led to the emigration from Germans were for religious freedom, sought freedom from military involvement and political opression. Develpoment of mechanized manufacturing of goods. Increasing industrialization and the use of machines. And other major reason that led millions to immigrate was the unstable political situation in the German states in 1848. Many people were also persuaded to come to America by emigration officials, solicitors, friends and relatives.
When the steam boat and other modernizations didn't exist Germans took long, complicated routes through Great Britain by train and boat to get to the U.S. Then immigration was more convenient and faster with inventions such as the steam boat and steam train. During the flood of emigrants from Germany, its rulers tried to stop the flow, but to little effect. Modernization was ahead of the rulers. It took about 40 days and sometimes as long as six months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Before getting on the boat the Doctors check passengers to be healthy. Depending on the tickets you had you eould have a private place to sleep and food always available. If not you would sleep and eat on the bottom level of the ship. If you want a better life you must risk your life and be brave. Immigrants faced dangerous storms and were exposed of becoming ill and dying.
Most Germans lived on the countryside and only about two fifths lived in cities larger than 25,000 people. Germans would cluster together to form communities called "Miniature-Germany" towns. At the town bakers, butcher, cabinetmakers, cigar makers, distillers, machinists and tailors could be found in abundance. Also German businesses such as the beer industry was found. Although they were all Germans, they didn't got along in large groups based on geography, ideology and religion. Were known as Bavarians, Saxons and by other names based on the political party.
During the year 1700 many people from different countries immigrated towards U.S. for an easier life. Like much of the other immigrants, German immigrants led to the decision of immigrating since they lived in bad conditions at their homeland. It is very surprising and notorious the dessesperation of the immigrants. As soon as they got to the U.S. they started working the very first day, to grow up as a comminity and be a better hardworking man. Everyone should be like the immigrants with so much entusiasm to get ready to work and produce great goods after hardworking. Although they sometimes risk their lifes at least they were paid. The greatest thing was that at the german towns they were their own owners. Although they risked their lifes the outcames count the effort. Those who survived had the opportunity to live The American Dream.
A group of immigrants, succeeded after immigrating to America.
When the steam boat and other modernizations didn't exist Germans took long, complicated routes through Great Britain by train and boat to get to the U.S. Then immigration was more convenient and faster with inventions such as the steam boat and steam train. During the flood of emigrants from Germany, its rulers tried to stop the flow, but to little effect. Modernization was ahead of the rulers. It took about 40 days and sometimes as long as six months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Before getting on the boat the Doctors check passengers to be healthy. Depending on the tickets you had you eould have a private place to sleep and food always available. If not you would sleep and eat on the bottom level of the ship. If you want a better life you must risk your life and be brave. Immigrants faced dangerous storms and were exposed of becoming ill and dying.
A disastrous event were over hundreds of immigrants had to wait for hours after the train went down.
Most Germans lived on the countryside and only about two fifths lived in cities larger than 25,000 people. Germans would cluster together to form communities called "Miniature-Germany" towns. At the town bakers, butcher, cabinetmakers, cigar makers, distillers, machinists and tailors could be found in abundance. Also German businesses such as the beer industry was found. Although they were all Germans, they didn't got along in large groups based on geography, ideology and religion. Were known as Bavarians, Saxons and by other names based on the political party.
During the year 1700 many people from different countries immigrated towards U.S. for an easier life. Like much of the other immigrants, German immigrants led to the decision of immigrating since they lived in bad conditions at their homeland. It is very surprising and notorious the dessesperation of the immigrants. As soon as they got to the U.S. they started working the very first day, to grow up as a comminity and be a better hardworking man. Everyone should be like the immigrants with so much entusiasm to get ready to work and produce great goods after hardworking. Although they sometimes risk their lifes at least they were paid. The greatest thing was that at the german towns they were their own owners. Although they risked their lifes the outcames count the effort. Those who survived had the opportunity to live The American Dream.
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| Kids working in the "Miniature"tows on the factories. |
Kids working in the "Miniature"tows on the factories.
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