Today are more than eleven million of immigrants that live undocumented in the United States. In fact, all those immigrants have to deal every day with an insecure situation that affects their whole lives. The author of Undocumented Dan-el Padilla Peralta described with interesting details his undocumented life. He came from the Dominican Republic to live in the USA with his family. Dan-el faced with a different reality from his family life in the original country. Being undocumented in the USA it was a barrier for better future. Dan-el and I had some similarities because we both had hard lives being undocumented, and we both had goals that made us better people; however, Dan-el had the opportunity to go to school and I didn’t.
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Because his great intellect, Dan-el meet influenced people that helped him applied for good school scholarship. As Dan-el Padilha Peralta described one those first victories, “The admissions director had called him with the news. The letter and financial aid offer were on their way to our apartment. I was almost speechless with shock, but I had to compose myself to translate for Mom. She started to cry. I cried too”(86-87). Dan-el started to benefit from of all your dedications and achievement this young man had invested during your childhood. The admission to Collegiate with a full scholarship was a reason for him and his mother to be emotional. It was a result of a lot of work, he beat the obstacles. Dan-el’s successful was a great result for a family that didn’t have “papeles”, immigration status green card. The difference between Dan-el and I was I didn’t have the opportunity to back to school after I received my green card five years ago. I remember how many times I dreamed about being able to start my classes and getting better with the English. Many times I tried to be accepted at college, but didn’t have the luck Dan-el had. My immigrant status were constantly questioned and was a big embarrassment to my personal development. All the time the answer was that without establishment of my imagination status I was not able to start my education. I needed to learn how to motivate myself to never give up and not feel bad about myself, in each unsuccessful attempt to start my education to better
During the …show more content…
Because his great intellect, Dan-el meet influenced people that helped him applied for good school scholarship. As Dan-el Padilha Peralta described one those first victories, “The admissions director had called him with the news. The letter and financial aid offer were on their way to our apartment. I was almost speechless with shock, but I had to compose myself to translate for Mom. She started to cry. I cried too”(86-87). Dan-el started to benefit from of all your dedications and achievement this young man had invested during your childhood. The admission to Collegiate with a full scholarship was a reason for him and his mother to be emotional. It was a result of a lot of work, he beat the obstacles. Dan-el’s successful was a great result for a family that didn’t have “papeles”, immigration status green card. The difference between Dan-el and I was I didn’t have the opportunity to back to school after I received my green card five years ago. I remember how many times I dreamed about being able to start my classes and getting better with the English. Many times I tried to be accepted at college, but didn’t have the luck Dan-el had. My immigrant status were constantly questioned and was a big embarrassment to my personal development. All the time the answer was that without establishment of my imagination status I was not able to start my education. I needed to learn how to motivate myself to never give up and not feel bad about myself, in each unsuccessful attempt to start my education to better