"Immigrant: an unenlightened person who thinks one country better than the other." Ambrose Bierce. 

Why do people migrate in the first place? To come to a country to get a better life for themselves and children. However, is it really better? Some people work to struggle to make ends meet just so that their children would have a better future. People leave their countries to come; for example, the United States believing everything will be better. Yet little that they know, they are treated worse and called names. People who live in this country do not see these on the same level as them. Then it makes me wonder WHY, what makes US better then THEM? The Untied States puts rules to keep immigrants away, like the Arizona laws. People now have to prove they are or not from this country. It disguises me in what this world has come to. Just because one has a social security card doesn't make one better then who does not or is pending for one. What everyone wants in common is a better life. 

-Emily Jeanine Doig 
English 101 - Fall Semester 2012 - John Jay College of Criminal Justice.