Immigration In California
... It tells the story about the “Okies,” groups of people drawn from Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and other states in search for a better life to the promised land of California. California life did not treat the Okies as fair at they thought it would. ... Ruben Martinez’s article, “Refine Immigration Policy to Reflect History and the Moment We Live In,” tell us the story about how restricting immigration and denying immigrants, would mean to deny our own history. Martinez discusses in his article about how America wants to enforce its immigration laws by the most cruel means possible. ... There is a quote in the article saying, “It will take courage to live through this time of transition in California. ... ” Martinez is telling us here about how immigrants have worked hard to make better lives for themselves and their children, and that they have embrace us each night with the food on our dinner table, because it were the hands of immigrants who grew and picked it from California soil. Immigration in California has indeed affected our lives in some way as described in the articles written by Steinbeck and Martinez.