- chicken san joaquin ! - what ? what you are making in the kitchen chicken san joaquin.this is the landopportunity. somebody opens the doors for you. i could talk to whoever i wanted about anything i wanted. be able to be free. i dreamt of coming to the united states. [ narrator ] thited sta a nation of immigrants. since the early 00s, people from many lands... have nurtured this country's growth and development. "gold on the streets of america." that's all you heard. you could be anything you want here and make a lot of money. even a dollar a day. e more i see of my adopted country, the more gratitude do i feel toward it for affording me protection... from the tyrants of my native country. [ narrator ] at first, the door to the united states was open to anyone... who could survive the dangers of travel to this young, distant land. that hope to be in america was so great and so sunny, that it colored all the pain that we had during our trip. the first night in america... i spent with hundreds of other recently arrived immigrants in an immense hall... with tiers of narrow