As immigrant you need some time before getting your own vehicle. First, you need to do all the processes require in the host country in order to get your license for example leaner’s permit and road test that can take around six months or a year. In the meantime, you have a lot of activities which necessitate you to move all the time from one place to another place like go to work, bring the children to school and so one. Many immigrants rely on family and friends for transportation. According to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “One Mexican immigrant in Dallas, whose aunt had always driven her to their workplace, said, and then she stopped working there. I didn’t have a way to get there…many times I would walk. This demonstrates that carpooling only works if people share the same, regular hours and schedules. Many said they are often stuck at the end of the day and must find their own way home even when they do carpool. Women seem to suffer most from transportation problems, since the men normally drive the one car in the …show more content…
Most of the time, the employers do not treat immigrants correctly even though they have good qualifications and had good jobs in their countries chiefly when they don’t speak the host country’s language. So many immigrants do some jobs they wouldn’t do in their country; they usually work in the maintenance, cleaning or custodial, and construction field. After a couple of time when they become familiar with the areas, they become taxi drivers. The employers know the immigrants situations; they take advantage of that by offering them whatever they want and a lot of work to do. In a video on Workforce Strategies Initiative at the Aspen Institute on a debate the interviewees argue many immigrant workers do not get safety protection to do their job, but it is different for native-born. Plus, the employers do not respect the minimum wages and the immigrant workers tolerate illegal employment practice. Whatever the education of the immigrant he earns less than the native born regardless of their