How you gonna get there?  A tale of immigration

Author / Artist ollie

story During my investigation into my family's heritage and immigration system I found something surprising; my father was the first of my whole family to come to New York.
  I interviewed my father Wally Aquanetta Heferstien to learn about my family's travels through immigration. I asked him many questions dealing with his past within New York. My father was born in Willmar, Minnesota and he moved to the Big Apple in 1970. My father lived on Bond Street in the fall of 1970. In the spring of 1973 lived he lived uptown on 73rd street. Then in the fall of 1973 he moved to where he lives now. When my father lived back in the good old southwest he thought school.

Another Immigration story:
    Jalina Rulina Maria Depiez, is an immigrant from Puerto Rico. Jalina was born in San Juan at El Hospital San Juan on January first 1986. Jalina lived in a poor family with her five siblings and mother and father. They lived on a farm with chickens and everything but they soon felt they wanted to move to America, "the land of the free". Jalina had two brothers and three sisters who took care of her while her parents worked; they were Mariana, Marisol, Mariposa, Mateo and Miguel. Her father Fernando Luis Delgado Depiez and mother Rosa Maria Sophia Joniez worked in nearby buildings; her father worked in a fast food restaurant and her mom at a comic book store. They choose to move to New York because they had family living there. They bought five plan tickets with all their savings and the guys traveled by car and boat for they had not enough money. Jalina moved to New York at the age of seven and has lived there since. Jalina's family lived in Brooklyn at first but moved to a small apartment in the Bronx. Jalina loves it in New York, her neighborhood is culturally diverse and her school is a lot of fun. Jalina's sister is now in college and her mother and father have gotten much better jobs. Fernando is a banker and Rosa is a nurse at training. They live happily in New York but violence is a priority to get rid of. As an immigrant, Jalina says it was a choice that her family made and she's glad they did!!
.Jalina Depiez
                              789 Grand Concourse West
                               apt. 6j BRONX, N Y
                                  10451