http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/18/why-immigration-is-good-for-us-growth/
Immigrants have helped shaped America from the very beginning. The very first immigrants were the Europeans. Europeans contributed animals mostly. Some of our favorite animals that they contributed where the cow, the pig, and horse. Later the Europeans got there and slaves from Africa and bring them to America. The Africans contributed new medicines, workers for cotton fields, the White House, music, rice cultivation, food, cleaning, and nannying among many other things. The Hispanics and Latinos contributed hard labor and will power. They are willing to do the jobs that we no longer want to do. They do agriculture, construction, cooking, and many other things. Now I could go on forever. Because in America we’re a salad bowl and tossed into our salad if not only Europeans, Africans, Hispanics and Latinos, but also Asians, Indians, and many more. Basically what I’m saying is America would be nothing but grassland without immigrants. We shaped and eat balls America.
We need to accept every body because every body helps make the world go round and keeps our salad bowl fresh and colorful.
Fun fact, immigrants built the Trump Tower, and Trump’s mother was in immigrant. So no matter how hard people try to ignore it even if they try as much as our president they cannot ignore it. Trump always says make America great again, but you can’t do that without immigrants because immigrants are what make America great!
To relate this back to Henrique’s journey in the very beginning of the book before we even meet Henrique we meet a lady who works for a journalist and helps her clean her house and makes Her life so much easier, in fact I would say that she makes her life Great. Surprise, surprise that lady is and immigrant.
Its time for us to stop being stubborn and prejudice and accept everybody, so our lives will be not only be better, but great.
http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=african-contribution-to-american-culture