reading of chapter 4

I been thinking about this all week and I have to say that a certain part in the book strut me more than anything else and it is something I can relate a lot too as well.
The aspect that immigrants that would come get sixty five to eighty dollars. An unskilled laborer would make as much as one dollar a day and abut eight hundred dollars during his indenture. And it is known that a guy named Bradfield make a tenth of this in his indenture in four years. The expenses of food, clothing, shelter and freedom was a part of his mind but it was defiantly not a great deal. (Going to America p. 74) However, for those times both sides made a bargain for this trade relationship.
This part actually reminded me a lot of myself. Long story short- I wanted to leave germany and signed up with an agency that found me a family (labor giver) in the US. The person I going to contract with for 12 month paid for my flight roundtrip, car, shelter and food. I had to work 40-45 hours a week sometimes even on the weekends and lived with them and didn't got more than $195 a week. That was not more than $4 an hour. Which is under the minimum salary allowed in the United states. But because I was german and under german condensations it was ok. Which no being a Nanny and a permanent resident, which means almost a citizen of United States of America I make over 6 times more and hour  than before. So I can kind of feel for the immigrants and I kind of got a sense how it feels when you are not a part of this country.