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  Immigration is a very popular topic in literature. Many books talk about the hardships that an immigrant faces in their new country. These hardships include, but are not limited to, inability to find a job, difficulty in adapting to a new culture, and flat-out racism. However, one of the less-oft written-about troubles that immigrants face is the sheer complexity and difficulty of immigration itself.   A good example of a book that acknowledges how difficult immigration can be is Kite Runner. The book emphasizes many difficulties that an immigrant faces in America, including the issue of immigration itself.
 In the book, an Afghan child named Amir, and his father, Baba, try to immigrate to the United States to avoid Communist persecution. Amir and Baba have to bear the very worst conditions during their trip. They have to travel in a filthy gas tanker to get to America, and when I say that they traveled in a filthy gas tanker, I mean that they actually had to ride inside the tank that the tanker truck was carrying! One guy actually died from the gas fumes! If that isn't an example of the hardships that immigrants have to suffer during immigration, I don't know what is.
 Another good example is later in the book when a now grown-up Amir adopts his orphaned nephew back in Afghanistan and tries to bring him back to America. This time, the obstacle isn't unsanitary conditions, but rather they have to face the complex immigration policies. Amir is required to provide the death certificates of the orphaned child's parents to prove that the boy was an orphan. That was a big problem for Amir because since Afghanistan had experienced decades of war, few had a certificate for life or death. The only reason that Amir was able to get the child into the United States was because he had a wife back in America.
 Kite Runner is a very strong book on immigration, for it not only discusses the hardships that immigrants have to face once they get there, but it also discusses the hardships that they have to face while getting there.