The following is the email I managed to send to college friends and professors I worked with.
The reason why I felt I should post this for you all to see is simple. I have lived my whole life in California, never knowing anything else, always hiding and always running scared because of one crooked lawyers mistakes. Never being able to drive a car or get a job, I decided to become one fucking good student, finally getting my BA in Psychology, minor in Philosophy at UCR this past June. 3.5 GPA! With my life now taken away and my family fragmented, more than before I wish to make people aware of how disjointed and stagnant the USs Immigration system is, so that you all can make informed decisions when deciding who to vote for in November. Why this matters to me is because I want to go back home, I want to go back to the only thing I know since 1986, when I was one. I want to see my brother and sister again, she turned 13 today. Poor girl.
I wont have a computer, internet or telephone access anytime soon after my time here is up, and I just wanted to let you fellas know the situation. Regardless of your stance on these political issues, please try to understand that I make my story known in order to get the news out _ that families and lives are thrown to shambles because of how the system currently functions. You know something is wrong when sets of Immigration officers and lawyers tell you you shouldnt even be in their custody.
Thanks for your time in reading and evaluating this. You will hear from me again once I find a place to stay, and am able to access the net somewhere safe and sound. Man. Who expects this kind of mess to happen. Vote for change, for someone _ anyone who wants to fix this system, so that no more innocent families are split up needlessly.
LJ