Each of these articles discusses education programs geared towards helping immigrants succeed. The first two articles, "A Helping Hand for Migrant Students" and "How a Student Network Helps Immigrant Kids Learn" focus on children and their rights to education. The third article, "The American Dream Isn't Dead. This is How Immigrant Families are Achieving It" focuses on adult immigrants and how education programs can help them succeed in getting better jobs. The programs that revolve around the children who are going to school seem helpful because they try to integrate them immediately into the classroom, while also recognizing that they have specific needs. The article that is about education for immigrant adults, I think also sounds like a very good idea so the immigrants are not stuck in a low-skill job. This makes it seem that there is hope for the adults to get better jobs once they take these courses that are offered and can gain more skills. 

I shared my collection with my mom and she mostly discussed how she wished most articles revolved around solutions. She gets the majority of her news from the New York Times newspaper. She was mostly hopeful that these solutions could help families and children of immigrants succeed. We had pretty similar viewpoints. My mom however was more surprised at all the hardships because she has never dealt with many of them or has even read many articles on all that immigrants must face. I think this assignment has opened my eyes to more possible solutions that are occurring and should take place nationwide. I have enjoyed this assignment because it shows that there are solutions to these problems.

I think these solutions which revolve around education would be most successful in emerging gateways because in these communities nothing may be necessarily set in place or routine per se. There may not necessarily be a specific way of doing things; thus, reform may be easier. These communities are just starting to become filled with immigrants. Other people in the community would be able to see this shift and more likely want to make a change rather than a community that has always been a town of immigrants (continuous gateway) that is already set in its ways. Additionally, I think that these solutions would face opposition and difficulties in hostile context of reception because it is already not a welcoming environment. Due to this, the people would not want to change to make it more accommodating. They would probably rather use resources how they have been instead of allocating them for immigrants’ use.