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This 6 page paper examines Joel Millman's book "The Other Americans" and argues that his position—that immigrants are a vital component for revitalizing America's cities—is sound. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ranging from rising crime to increasing taxes. This paper examines Millmans book and argues that his reasoning is sound and that immigrants remain a vital component of our society, just
as they have always been. Discussion Millman begins his book with a wonderful anecdote that effective illustrates his message. He describes the intersection of Bushwick Avenue and Flushing, in Brooklyn,
the heart of an area the police call "The Well" for the "depth of drug-induced depravity" (Millman 19). The neighborhood looks blighted: a burned-out liquor store, a dingy 24-hour gas
station with attendants behind bullet proof glass, public housing projects (Millman). The area is full of vacant lots and razed buildings (Millman). But there is a riot of color on
one corner where a Dominican restaurant does a thriving business (Millman). "Homeboys in hooded sweatshirts go in and out constantly, probably acting as lookout for the local drug lord: "Brooklyn,
New York, in the 1990s" (Millman 19). Down the street at 913 Flushing, "a line of customers snakes into the gutter, silent figures waiting for their daily fix" (Millman 19).
Drugs, yes? Heroin? Coke? "No, se?or, Tortillas" (Millman 20). Millman goes on to explain that the shop, the Tortilleria Piaxtla, Inc., is one of five tortilla shops in Brooklyn, and
that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez, the man who built the business, is
an immigrant himself; he worked for years illegally but then became a citizen (Millman). Sanchez now employs 50 immigrants like himself, and like him, they are working hard, investing in
the community, spending money and revitalizing the neighborhood because of their presence as well as their work ethic (Millman). Sanchez worked his way up by doing a series of
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