WASTED LIVES - Undocumented
the story about the opportunity to travel with her son to United States, the most powerful country in the world, that country called: "the country of opportunities" the country that many people want to know some day and it would make them to feel very happy and very privileged. And because she did not know any English, and she was undocumented, she had to start from zero, doing the heaviest, the dirtiest and the most deplorable jobs and she also had to live with strangers to be able to survive with her son.
The hardest part was living with the concern that Immigration was going to detain her and hit her until she was unconscious or being put in jail and even more terrible and it did not let her to have peace of mind and it was the fact that perhaps, her son might be taken away from her.
All this made her to realize that it was no life for both them, being living that condition so subhuman, with no type of quality life, and even worse, with no hope of progress, ironically, they living in more danger in United States than in Colombia.
That´s why that after being living in United States for more than three years, she felt that she had more qualifications to perform other more productive jobs and much more productive and interesting activities than the ones offered by the United States system for being undocumented immigrants. And when they accomplished their primordial main goal which it was to learn the English language, she decided to return back to her native country, Colombia.
And she wants to express this message: "it is sad to see how, many and many millions of people see the need to leave their countries, families and all their lives indeed in order to survive. It is really pitiful that we have to live this every day, but it is even sadder that all these people just for the fact of being undocumented, they are the most vulnerable to be humiliated, abused, disrespected, and they have to be hiding like if they were rats, they always live with the worry that they are going to be detained or even killed and because of this their lives had been completely wasted, and much less, it definitely seems like we are nothing and even more, we worth nothing, but the most unbelievable is that the richest and the most powerful countries where much undocumented immigration is generated, the last thing they want to do it is to avoid that regrettable situation, just for the simple reason that it is what produces more money and power, after drug trafficking".
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The hardest part was living with the concern that Immigration was going to detain her and hit her until she was unconscious or being put in jail and even more terrible and it did not let her to have peace of mind and it was the fact that perhaps, her son might be taken away from her.
All this made her to realize that it was no life for both them, being living that condition so subhuman, with no type of quality life, and even worse, with no hope of progress, ironically, they living in more danger in United States than in Colombia.
That´s why that after being living in United States for more than three years, she felt that she had more qualifications to perform other more productive jobs and much more productive and interesting activities than the ones offered by the United States system for being undocumented immigrants. And when they accomplished their primordial main goal which it was to learn the English language, she decided to return back to her native country, Colombia.
And she wants to express this message: "it is sad to see how, many and many millions of people see the need to leave their countries, families and all their lives indeed in order to survive. It is really pitiful that we have to live this every day, but it is even sadder that all these people just for the fact of being undocumented, they are the most vulnerable to be humiliated, abused, disrespected, and they have to be hiding like if they were rats, they always live with the worry that they are going to be detained or even killed and because of this their lives had been completely wasted, and much less, it definitely seems like we are nothing and even more, we worth nothing, but the most unbelievable is that the richest and the most powerful countries where much undocumented immigration is generated, the last thing they want to do it is to avoid that regrettable situation, just for the simple reason that it is what produces more money and power, after drug trafficking".
WASTED LIVES - Undocumented
the story about the opportunity to travel with her son to United States, the most powerful country in the world, that country called: "the country of opportunities" the country that many people want to know some day and it would make them to feel very happy and very privileged. And because she did not know any English, and she was undocumented, she had to start from zero, doing the heaviest, the dirtiest and the most deplorable jobs and she also had to live with strangers to be able to survive with her son.
The hardest part was living with the concern that Immigration was going to detain her and hit her until she was unconscious or being put in jail and even more terrible and it did not let her to have peace of mind and it was the fact that perhaps, her son might be taken away from her.
All this made her to realize that it was no life for both them, being living that condition so subhuman, with no type of quality life, and even worse, with no hope of progress, ironically, they living in more danger in United States than in Colombia.
That´s why that after being living in United States for more than three years, she felt that she had more qualifications to perform other more productive jobs and much more productive and interesting activities than the ones offered by the United States system for being undocumented immigrants. And when they accomplished their primordial main goal which it was to learn the English language, she decided to return back to her native country, Colombia.
And she wants to express this message: "it is sad to see how, many and many millions of people see the need to leave their countries, families and all their lives indeed in order to survive. It is really pitiful that we have to live this every day, but it is even sadder that all these people just for the fact of being undocumented, they are the most vulnerable to be humiliated, abused, disrespected, and they have to be hiding like if they were rats, they always live with the worry that they are going to be detained or even killed and because of this their lives had been completely wasted, and much less, it definitely seems like we are nothing and even more, we worth nothing, but the most unbelievable is that the richest and the most powerful countries where much undocumented immigration is generated, the last thing they want to do it is to avoid that regrettable situation, just for the simple reason that it is what produces more money and power, after drug trafficking".
The hardest part was living with the concern that Immigration was going to detain her and hit her until she was unconscious or being put in jail and even more terrible and it did not let her to have peace of mind and it was the fact that perhaps, her son might be taken away from her.
All this made her to realize that it was no life for both them, being living that condition so subhuman, with no type of quality life, and even worse, with no hope of progress, ironically, they living in more danger in United States than in Colombia.
That´s why that after being living in United States for more than three years, she felt that she had more qualifications to perform other more productive jobs and much more productive and interesting activities than the ones offered by the United States system for being undocumented immigrants. And when they accomplished their primordial main goal which it was to learn the English language, she decided to return back to her native country, Colombia.
And she wants to express this message: "it is sad to see how, many and many millions of people see the need to leave their countries, families and all their lives indeed in order to survive. It is really pitiful that we have to live this every day, but it is even sadder that all these people just for the fact of being undocumented, they are the most vulnerable to be humiliated, abused, disrespected, and they have to be hiding like if they were rats, they always live with the worry that they are going to be detained or even killed and because of this their lives had been completely wasted, and much less, it definitely seems like we are nothing and even more, we worth nothing, but the most unbelievable is that the richest and the most powerful countries where much undocumented immigration is generated, the last thing they want to do it is to avoid that regrettable situation, just for the simple reason that it is what produces more money and power, after drug trafficking".
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WASTED LIVES - Undocumented
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940157247584 |
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| Publisher: | MARTA NIDIA VELASTEGUI |
| Publication date: | 03/24/2017 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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