I have experienced immigration discrimination since I was nine years old. My parents and I came to the United States in 2004, and fear has taken over our lives ever since. I also know that immigrants risk their lives trying to come to a land in the hopes of escaping the possibility of becoming victims of crime, for protection, and in the hope that their children will achieve the American dream. They also hide in trucks, and some immigrants are lucky enough to get through the discriminatory selection process for a visa that becomes more complex every day, causing more and more immigrants to become illegal aliens. For once, poor people trying to get a visa have to prove they are rich because they need to have a lot of money and property. After, arriving in the United States as an illegal alien if they were lucky to survive the 8 or up to 20 hours walking through the barren desert, they face leaving with less than a fetus because a fetus has loving parents who will provide a shelter, protection and food. On the other hand, immigrants have no housing, protection, food, work, language, sometimes they have no one to ask for support. These complex situations destroy their mental well-being because they fear 24/7 the government that tries to protect the “weak and vulnerable” and instead harms the truly weak and vulnerable immigrants. Deportations segregate immigrant families. Furthermore, if they try to correct their legal status they are punished with 10 years and the children pay the consequences. Once again, the government's attempt to protect the weak and vulnerable harms the children of immigrants who arrive
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