Immigration Reform

Having to live in New York City most of life, I have the pleasure to have met other immigrants like myself from difference face of the world (co-worker, students and friend), and they all have the common story of sadness and struggle but mostly hope. New York City is the capital of diversity is one of the reasons why I love this city for it’s entirely. Yet cannot help to ignore, the everyday struggle many immigrants deal with every day of their life. I do think of America as of land of the free and the Land where all or most of your dreams come true if you work hard for it. Many immigrants included often live in fear when the topic of being deported comes to mind. It is a very scary myself situation to be in, especially when all you know is the country that you’ve been race since you were young, basically all your life. Many of us are grateful for the many opportunities that this country have provided us but it also feel like a tease or a threat that it could also be taken away at any moment, it surely doesn’t feel one walk with confident to know that I am here to stay.

The fact of the matter that it’s a major debate when it comes to immigration reformed bothers me some. Most of us that were born in another country do not have our hand out; don’t take much or none at all from the government because we often have to prove that we can take care our self and also our own. Is heartfelt when someone gets deported and their lives along with their family changes in a matter of second, everything they work for gone. The government mostly concentrates on how many individuals are getting away with crime as they consider, instead of how many families are losing could be without especially the children. They are many stories that it will break your heart. Two particular stories of many, One of a young mother, who burst into tear, just having learned of her little boy’s diagnosis of leukemia-not because of the diagnosis-but because she feared what...