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from other nations who were “former soviet bloc countries” to have the
green card.
People tend to immigrate to a better country to escape, to seek refuge
or to start a new life. The causes are mother nature and wars. In the
novel The Kite Runner, Amir and Baba (his father) relocate to “Fremont,
California 1980s” (Hosseini, pg.125) where they start a new life. Amir
gets older, finds his future wife, and, from there, his life continues.
There are many stories that are like what Baba and Amir have been
through, like the Syrians. The Syrians are currently in a civil war that is
impossible to know when it started and how the “uprising turned from a
predominately peaceful protest movement into a militarized rebellion,
armed clashes became increasingly common” (The Editors of
Encyclopedia, 2018). To be safe, the Syrians would flee their country
and seek refuge in Europe, which is within walking distance, and the
United States of America. Under the Obama administration, a total of
“18,007 Syrian refugees were resettled in the United States between
October 1, 2011 and December 31, 2016” (Jie et al, 2017). Many of the
Syrians journeyed to the states so that they could escape their country at
war and start new lives like in the novel The Kite Runner.
In conclusion, many people see the States as the land of the free,
where they come to restart life. Even though there are laws that the
immigrants need to follow, good and bad come from them that help the
society in many ways. There are many stories of the life the immigrants