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Im sitting here on my computer reading the posts from all you people and my eyes shed a tear. Yes, i am an immigrant, rather, an "alien" as you call me. Do i look/sound/feel or have anything different from the rest of americans ? ... i do not believe so, yet i am given this title, an alien, someone or rather something, horrible, right out of a hollywood movie. For most of you who have your mind made up about illegal imigrants, i suggest you move on and do not read this post, it will be a waste of your time and energy, however, for those of you who are open minded, i shall continue. My story starts about nine years ago, when i a boy of 14 at the time, was faced by 3 older guys and threatened by them to force my mother into doing something that was not legal. After a few other threats to me and my mother, i was forced to leave school and my mother her job. Then we had to get out of the country and came to US, where we have been ever since. A couple years afterwards we decided that hopefully, US, the nation of freedom, would accept us as citizens. We applied for political assylym and the date for the court came. I believe the judge was like some other people who have a set mind and was questioning my mother, not like a person who has been through a life and death situation, but like a criminal who has commited serious felonies. To make a long story short, the translation had a lot of issues and was a problem, not enough time was allocated to us and we were stamped as not being fit to became citizens. Present day : I quit my job of working with mentally challenged people, because my employment authorization card expired, soon i will be forced to quit college because of lack money, i can not visit a clinic to remove my wisdom teeth for the same reason, and i do not wish to be a burden of this society and pay for me. Im my previous years here i have not done one thing wrong, yet i am not fit to live here. I have lost sight of my country/religion/culture and do not have any more ties with my native country... where am i supposed to go, what am i supposed to do ? why should i quit school (even though i have the intelect and the passion to be one) and forget my dreams of being a doctor, like my mother because i am not allowed to work and save money to go to school ? hundred of questions like this flood on my mind, along with tears. I have done nothing wrong, i have washed your dishes on your restaurants for $4 an hour, cleaned your bathrooms full of vomit and piss on bars, i have taken care of your mentally challenged people for over three years, a job that many americans refuse to do, and when they do so for two weeks at a time. I am not allowed to leave to visit another country, experience something new, board a plane or go on a cruise ship if i wanted. I can not change my past, and i can not weep over it either. I am a modern day prisoner in larger prison for most criminals, but my crime was to escape my death and persecution of my country. I also understand why some americans get upset from the flood of imigrants and why some immigrants choose a different and illegal way of living, but some times they have no other choice. As a conclusion, i did not write this post to make you all feel pitty for me, my family, or any one else. I wrote it with the simple purpose of maybe letting some of you that we do not always wish to travel here and live like animals, disrespected and steped upon, given names and talked about like we are a bunch of rodents that invade this country. It hurts to hear someone say "round em up and ship em outta here" while the everyday life and economy of United States depends in a sense from immigrants. I am not an economist to give you statistics and figures of how much immigration is costing United States, but the fact is that if a person is not allowed to have a job, he will try to find some other way of eating and living. And as you all know, United States is a very large country, where you can hide quite well. I wish you all a merry christmas and express my joy in the capture of a tyrant.