Greetings to all I'm tom, this is my first post to this blog, and like many of you who will read this blog I was brought here to the United States when I was a child. I was brought here without any form of documentation by my mother, I am not much of a writer but I will try my best to keep this as eloquent and brief as I can. I believe my life story as being one of great paradoxes, unlike many of my undocumented counterparts I do not live hundreds of miles away from my country of birth, in fact I can see it from the window of my apartment. I live in the poor neighborhood of a Texan border city I live approximately 15 minutes away from Mexico, my country of birth. Living here in this unique city I have been able to appreciate the socioeconomic differences responsible for the exodus of many of my countrymen. On the American side the streets are clean, safe, almost void of violence and free of beggar children. However at walking distance from the safety and opulence of the United States there is Juarez a city where violence and poverty run rampant here it is way too often that one will see children in the streets begging for food. It was from this cycle of poverty that my family and mother decided to flee in order to provide me with a fighting chance for survival. My mom left the life she had behind to give me the opportunity to be something else besides a maquiladora worker or have been engulfed into the narco culture that exist in Juarez.
Upon graduating from high school is when I realized the irony of the situation that all the people living undocumented face. We left places where we faced poverty and violence to come to a place where we are treated like second class citizens, many of us are attending and graduating college to face the harsh reality that we cannot do much with our hard earned degrees. Our future here is uncertain our life is in the hands of a few men and women who seem to not comprehend the gravity of our situations. Like many of you I often find myself desperate and depressed not knowing what to do but I try my best to remain positive and do whatever I must to ensure that the DREAM act passes' am very happy that I found this blog and I would like to thank you all those who read this blog. I want to let u know that I am willing to help as much as I can in order to advance our cause.
T.E.N.