Undocumented Immigration Short Story

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Hello, this is my single story narrative of Undocumented immigrants. Once there was a time my parents were Undocumented immigrants in the United States Of America. Before they came my Dad worked so hard to make my Mother come here in this county. He worked two jobs Day-in and Day-out. I have two sisters and one brother. One of my sisters where born in Africa and still lives there now. Africa is the place my parents were born and raised. My other sister was born in New York City as well as my big brother. It was even harder in New York because my sister was born handicapped and was diagnosed with brain-damage.

Then later, my family soon moved to the place called Memphis, Tennessee were, then I was born in 2000. It was a great place, they’ve help my sister and bring nurses to sleep in our house to take
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She also came to America because my Father as well for a better life. In fact, I don’t remember if she got an opportunity to take her test to be a U.S Citizen. That was my Dad’s younger sister same Mother & same Father. Later in 2012, my Mother and Father became U.S Citizens! Its was crazy they took a test of everything going on in this country even when it was first developing as a colonies. Since my brother and sister, and I were born here in America where automatically a U.S …show more content…
That’s a large portion of people. These people we have know clue how they are, that’s dangerous. Race and gender is identified but personal we don’t have documents to know who they really are. Massive killings are happening now as we speak. Outsiders killing people born is the USA. One of my uncles friends son killing his girlfriend he meet and he’s not even from this country. I heard he slithered her throat. His father was surprised and my family were shocked. My Dad said, “ How are going to kill a girl because is not your baby”. I was like

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