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The American Dream is not worth it for immigrants because of the challenges they face leaving everything behind, border control coming into America, the language barrier, and trouble finding work leaves them facing hardships.

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1. Cabeza, Garrett. “Ferris High Teacher Who Helps Refugee Students Shares Insights from ‘the Best Job Ever’ at NWP Book Club.” Spokesman-Review, 10 Nov. 2021.

2. Carnock, Janie. “How Young Children of Immigrants Face Discrimination at School.” New

America, 18 Sept. 2015, www.newamerica.org/education policy/edcentral/early-discrimination/.

3. Grande, Reyna, A Dream Called Home. Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018.

4. Graham, Carol, et al. “International Migration: What Happens to Those Left Behind?” Brookings, 9 Mar. 2022, www.brookings.edu/articles/international-migration-what happens-to-those-left-behind/.

5. Haigh Susan “Connecticut Estimates 200,000 Impacted by Immigration Change.” Canadian Press, 2019.

6. “Number of Green Cards in the United States FY 1820-2021,” Statista Research Department, 2 Oct. 2023. www.statista.com/statistics/199958/number-of-green-cards-in-the-united-states/.

7. Marino, Dr. Joseph. “We Met Injured, Dehydrated, Exhausted Migrants at the Border, Listen to Their Pleas.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 22 July 2021, www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/07/22/immigration-migrantsus-border- seek-freedom-hopelessness/8043719002/.”

8. Smith, Dana G. "At What Age Does Our Ability to Learn a New Language Like a Native Speaker Disappear?" Scientific America, 4 May 2018. www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-what-age-does-our-ability-to-learn-a-new language-like-a-native-speaker-disappear/.

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Many immigrants have to leave family and most of their stuff behind when migrating to America which leaves them with nothing and no support system.

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Border control stops a lot of immigrants from coming to America, which can set them back and could result in many different problems.

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Not all immigrants know English which can make it hard for them to communicate, while there are resources that can help them learn, it isn't always successful, and it can cause discrimination for immigrant students.

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Immigrants may not have the college degrees or proper requirements needed to find a good job which can leave them dependable on assistance from the government, which will disqualify them from obtaining a green card.

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“My father had drilled that into us the minute we had arrived in Los Angeles after our third attempt at crossing the border,” (Grande, 6).

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“Mexico the distance between my parents and me had been two thousand miles. In Santa Cruz, the distance was three hundred, but emotionally, we were light-years apart, and this time, I was the one who had migrated north in search of a better life, leaving them all behind,” (Grande, 10).

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“I wrote it in Spanish because I had only been in the U.S. for a few months and my English was limited,” (Grande, 34).

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“When I learned to read in English in the eighth grade... ” (Grande, 126).

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“…low-paying jobs, abuse, and discrimination in the workplace, fear of deportation, struggles to assimilate and learn English, and the hardships of navigating and understanding the nuances of American culture and society,” (Grande 127).

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“Immigrants who want permanent legal status, commonly called a green card, have long been required to prove they won’t be “a public charge,” (Haigh).

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“… researchers from three Boston-based universities showed children are proficient at learning a second language up until the age of 18, roughly 10 years later than earlier estimates,” (Smith).

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“In the fiscal year of 2021, about 740,000 immigrants received legal permanent resident status in the United States,” (Statista).

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English isn't a barrier for immigrants because schools help immigrants learn English. “Rouse helps the students, some with English-speaking experience and others who don’t know a word in the language, develop English skills in her classroom, then they return to the general student population,” (Cabeza).

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in that same fiscal year, there were more than 9 million applicants for green cards. That is roughly 8% of immigrants that got green cards, so out of 450 immigrants, only 37 were granted green cards. (Statista).

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Immigrants coming to America have gone through tough times and not all schools have classes where immigrants can learn English. Also, many immigrants face bullying and discrimination because of their legal status. "However, many young children of immigrants — who account for around a quarter of all children under age 8 in the U.S. — face discrimination at school during this formative period,” (Carnock).

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“We discover that having household members abroad is associated with increased stress and depression for the left-behinds, and remittances do not offset these conditions,” (Graham).

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“The migrants we met were regularly dropped off at the border port of entry by U.S. Border Patrol despite being injured, dehydrated, starving or suffering from exhaustion and exposure,” (Marino).

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Also, the newspaper article, explains that some immigrants are traumatized because a lot of these immigrants die, and their bodies are just left there at the border (Marino).