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If I
stay in America, I'll try to be one of the best residents. Maybe, some day, I
will be the citizen who came here to work and found an opportunity to grow up
economical and intellectually but, I know I have to work hard if I want to get
such a reward some day.
My
husband and I work very hard for my children. We want our children to have
education in the future and to be good people. I always thank God very very much
for my family have freedom.
No
matter the reason, immigrants to the US come with hope.
-Linda
Thong-came to the US in 1985
Then
sheepishly I said to the woman who had approached me before, "I lied to
you, because of what I've been through in Hungary." She put her hand on my
shoulder. She understood. I didn't realize I was free, I wasn't going to be put
in prison.
-Endre
Bohem, Ellis Island in 1921
People
have been coming to the United States since before it was the United States.
Ever since a ship called The Mayflower arrived at what would become Plymouth,
Massachusetts in 1620. In the almost 400 years since then the welcome has
varied from open arms to electric fences but the dream has remained the same. A
better life for themselves and their families, the opportunity to succeed or to
be safe, the chance to be free. Not all have succeeded and some have succeeded
beyond their wildest dreams.
Albert
Einstein, Sergey Rachmaninov, Cary Grant, Andrew Carnegie, and Elle Wiesel are
a very few of the immigrants who have enriched science, culture, philanthropy
and human rights. Endre Bohem went on to Hollywood and worked as a screenwriter
and producer in films and television. Perhaps the children of Linda Thong and
Dagoberto Olvera will grow up to become household names. And even if they don’t
but simply participate in the daily whirl of American life and find some
happiness they will have succeeded.
