Dream Act offers hope to those without choice
Veronica Vega
Issue date: 5/14/09 Section: Opinion
Walking through dark streets, making deals with men who will cross you, praying day after day that Immigration won't catch you because you want a better future for your kids. You want them to live the American Dream, so if you have to go through hell, you do it until you get where you have to go.
What happens to these kids when they get to America? They grow up knowing the struggle that their mother went through. They use the tears that their mother cried as shields to protect themselves from the hardship they have to go through, living under the radar in the country they love so much where they are able to be free. My mother cried tears of pain 20 years ago, carrying her two infants in her arms, because she knew that if she stayed in Bolivia, my brother and I would be products of a country filled with corruption, anger, and poverty.
In February 2007, I went back to Bolivia to take care of my last trial with the INS court in the American embassy in Bolivia. My brother and I spent a year and half not knowing what our future will be since we did not know if the American government will approve our visa to come back to America, denying us of the future my mother worked so hard for.
Last year, I cried like my mother did all those years ago, but now, those tears were of happiness, not pain.
A student identified as Rachel, said, "The Dream Act stipulates that the undocumented student must have been in the country before the age of 16. They had NO CHOICE in the matter." Isn't this country built on the work that the immigrants of the past have done?"
What happens to these kids when they get to America? They grow up knowing the struggle that their mother went through. They use the tears that their mother cried as shields to protect themselves from the hardship they have to go through, living under the radar in the country they love so much where they are able to be free. My mother cried tears of pain 20 years ago, carrying her two infants in her arms, because she knew that if she stayed in Bolivia, my brother and I would be products of a country filled with corruption, anger, and poverty.
In February 2007, I went back to Bolivia to take care of my last trial with the INS court in the American embassy in Bolivia. My brother and I spent a year and half not knowing what our future will be since we did not know if the American government will approve our visa to come back to America, denying us of the future my mother worked so hard for.
Last year, I cried like my mother did all those years ago, but now, those tears were of happiness, not pain.
A student identified as Rachel, said, "The Dream Act stipulates that the undocumented student must have been in the country before the age of 16. They had NO CHOICE in the matter." Isn't this country built on the work that the immigrants of the past have done?"
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