Monday, June 27, 2011

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

"Last year I read about four students who walked from Miami to Washington to lobby for the Dream Act," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Vargas. "At the risk of deportation — the Obama administration has deported almost 800,000 people in the last two years — they are speaking out. Their courage has inspired me."

By Jose Antonio Vargas, New York Times Magazine
June 22, 2011

One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, I was introduced to a man I’d never seen. They told me he was my uncle. He held my hand as I boarded an airplane for the first time. It was 1993, and I was 12.

My mother wanted to give me a better life, so she sent me thousands of miles away to live with her parents in America — my grandfather (Lolo in Tagalog) and grandmother (Lola). [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html

1 comment:

immigration solicitors said...

Oh its great story.. well i think normally parents want their children to migrate because of better future!