To some extent the path used by migrants arriving in the U.S., determines the quality of the person who migrates and its ability to adapt to North American society .
There are basically three ways to reach this country. By land, by water and air.
immigrants arriving by land do so for the Canadian border or the border with Mexico. Those who arrive in Canada have deserved special attention from state agencies or the interest of the media, go a bit unnoticed and although the measures of border control have increased after 9-11, no one has thought of a wall or similar measures to prevent illegal immigration across the border. At the end of the day Canada is a developed country, where there is no social pressure to emigrate and those who are there have had to go through a process of review by the Canadian government.
There is no doubt that the great flood of illegal immigrants and especially coming from the Mexican border. Whether Mexican or Central American origin, and even other nationalities. This is immigration that causes the greatest impact on American society and which is reported more frequently in the media and politicians referred to signal weakness in protecting the borders. It also is where their eyes and actions of the federal government to demonstrate that it is exercising control actions.
immigrants arriving at the Mexican border are perhaps the lowest income people, low education, who come to work in the most humble and lower pay, such as agricultural, the cleaning and construction. These people are perhaps the ones most difficulty adapting to American society. Many, especially agricultural workers, living in a kind of ghetto, objectionable conditions and are semi-nomadic, they move in line to the region where crops are being. Given its education and the scarcity of resources, these migrant workers, most of them illegal, are the least amount in the social scale and have the greatest difficulties with the authorities. Ironically, these workers are necessary and useful, as are those who do work that Americans will not do.
Then there are the immigrants arriving by sea. They are basically the Caribbean, Cuba and Haiti. Haitian immigrants do not arrive in large numbers and when they do, they are intercepted, the authorities deported immediately. Those who do enter are so difficult to adapt as those entering the border with Mexico and also suffer the same way the persecution and have great difficulty in achieving wellness. Otherwise
are Cubans who arrive on rafts rudimentary or fast boats of smugglers, walking with a huge risk the Straits of Florida, way in which many of them have died. These immigrants, if they are lucky to get ashore, are welcomed by the authorities and quickly join the society of South Florida, with the help of the Cuban diaspora that is affluent and formidable political power. These immigrants are well received and are open all opportunities of education and work. Most of them move up the economic and social. We really are privileged by existing policies for Cuban asylum adopted by the U.S. Congress many years ago and accepted by the community as a way of rewarding those who have the courage to challenge the government of Fidel Castro.
The third way is that of people who arrive by plane. They have had to buy a relatively expensive airline ticket, having obtained a tourist visa and so are people of average economic and social strata in their home country, and average basic education and even some of them with education superior. These immigrants are undoubtedly more suited easily to society in some form are the least rejected and persecuted and ascend the ladder faster economic and social policy. They all come legally, some are legally managed by different methods and using specialized legal status and others stay illegally after their tourist visas expired. Almost all South American immigrants arriving by air and have created prosperous colonies that are well accepted by society.
In the latter group are Colombian immigrants, one of the largest Latino communities in both South Florida and New York, which has managed to carve out a reputation as hard working, educated, intelligent and respectful. They are generally appreciated by the companies that employ them and the mere fact of being Colombian is an important letter to get a job. This certainly makes the Colombian community is one of the most appreciated and most prestigious, and I have no doubt that eventually achieved political and economic power and will be in South Florida competing with the dominant colony, which has been and still is without doubt the Cuban. Jorge Pineda
Miami, 1/15/08
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