Analyzing The American Dream

People across America and the world hear their whole lives about the American Dream. I interpret the Dream as freedom to say, do, belief, and live as you want. Oversees they believe the same as I said previously, but they would add that the Dream also consists of helping their family survive. There are many different type of ethnicities that try to get into the United States, but we as a country set levels of how many of a certain ethnicity are allowed into our country. The current quota of immigrants that are allowed with the current set level, granted by Obama, is 675,000 per year. We now have less ways of letting in immigrants like the closing of Ellis and Angel island. Obstacles that are prevalent to the American dream is a travel ban by President Trump, closing of immigrant ports, and selective immigration.
Ellis island was full of loads of cultures, the fear that America had of all these different types of people would be if there was something wrong with them, “ waited the long days of quarantine, after leaving the sickness” (John Bruchac’s, “Ellis island”). The US government was afraid of the spread of disease brought from Europe. The closing of Ellis island also signified the end of Europeans grasp of The American Dream. This was the largest obstacle for people coming to America from Europe and prior to the island being closed, it has admitted 22 million europeans and asians. Americans tended to dislike the wave of immigration where the eastern europeans came because they were slobbish. Examples of them were Italians, Slovenians, and Croatians. The next wave of immigration was good for us because these immigrants made their own communities that tended not to distract from america’s job competition. Examples: Germans, Russians, and