Apr 22 2009
Immigration and Family: A Broken Portrait
One face of immigration is families being broken by the distance, and in more extreme cases by the fear of being caught by the government as people emigrate illegally; is a situation lose-lose as much of the time children are placed in the middle of this nasty experience. As an individual who came by legal means I saw another side of the spectrum a calm one, a side who I knew I was going to sleep well at nights without worrying that I was going to be in the middle of a raid and I have to say I’ve been happy living here, but I know some people live in fear because the Government has taken much restrictions with the immigration topics since the Bush administration, but that doesn’t bother to move from their countries and live their dreams, even if they have to live in the shadows just to have some tranquility in their lives.
For me is been a year and 5 months since I move here, I been living happily even if there is an economical crisis, I have some tranquility and I can go to the streets without feeling of being followed, but I know some people don’t have the same luck and going to the market is a situation of fear, almost to the point the prefer to hide… is something sad as immigration made this country, but something that is more sadder is that when children of illegal immigrants are separated from their parents because their parents are illegal and they aren’t as being born in American soil, they have to face the trauma of the raid and the separation from their biological parents. Is a situation where everyone lost as families are teared apart because of this situation and the government seems to do nothing as there are children involved in this… but I guess the parents of these children have to think more carefully before putting their offspring in a traumatic situation like this one.
I hope that everything in the next years will improve and this nightmare where children have to be exposed into raid disappear.
