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    Tenacity: An Immigrant’s Stories of Leadership, Navigation, and Adaptability in Realizing The American Dream
    Tenacity: An Immigrant’s Stories of Leadership, Navigation, and Adaptability in Realizing The American Dream
    Tenacity: An Immigrant’s Stories of Leadership, Navigation, and Adaptability in Realizing The American Dream
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    Tenacity: An Immigrant’s Stories of Leadership, Navigation, and Adaptability in Realizing The American Dream

    By José Rolando Villarreal J.D.

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    TENACITY is the author's, José Rolando Villarreal, J.D., American immigration story that reflects the life stories of many immigrants who come to the USA seeking to realize the American Dream.
    American immigration life stories are basically about individuals who came or were brought to the USA out of economic necessity, hunger for better opportunities, or even worse, seeking asylum due to oppression in their country. The author's story is no different. While his life story reflects an unpleasantly rough, and at times severely cruel reality that most immigrants have confronted for centuries, it is also a story of resilience. It is a story about immigration, migration, navigation and adaptation to change in order to realize the American Dream, by confronting and overcoming the harsh realities of life that most immigrants face in this country, sometimes barely surviving. The author was terco (determined) and had the tenacity to realize and live the American Dream, as he defines it, while striving to be successful as a son, husband, father, grandfather, attorney, administrator, adjunct college professor, city mayor, staff training consultant, and foremost, as an American citizen.
    The author's intent is primarily to inspire immigrants, documented and undocumented, and by extension to anyone who is related to, or works with, immigrants. In TENACITY, the author uses compelling stories drawn from his own life experiences to illustrate the many obstacles that hinder immigrants as they attempt to realize the American Dream. In his stories about immigration, racism, education, economics, and politics, the author succeeds in painting a picture reflective of a high degree of resilience that drives immigrants to thrust life obstacles aside in the path towards the American Dream.
    The book culminates in the author's presentation of highly effective leadership tools that can be utilized by the reader in the pursuit of the American Dream, however that dream is defined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781098301835
    Tenacity: An Immigrant’s Stories of Leadership, Navigation, and Adaptability in Realizing The American Dream

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