Yareni De Anda
11/06/09
4:25pm
The article is about a woman who's husband was arrested and deported for what his wife sees as "a mistake that he admits" and he tried to fix. She is the wife of a guy that at some point in his life made a mistake, a mistake that he learned from and did not made again. She says that when she met him she was ignorant to the fact that her husband had been deported in the past and that a part of that incident was possecion of a handgun which lead to his deportation (to Mexico). According to the article her and husband asked for their case to be reevaluated in hoping that her husband would be given a second chance but their request got denied and her husband got deported. After the incident the woman started performing a solo show in Mexico and the U.S. to reveal her moving story with the purpose of making people react and feel what she feels going through this difficult time. Her moving story is representative of many other stories of families and wives that are victims of a broken immigration system. She seeks for people to feel uncomfortable when hearing her story and to become sympathetic to it. The article mentions how all her efforts to open people's eyes by sharing her story have been backed up by organizations such as "the AHRC, APEX Austin and the Advocates for Human Rights" and she will continue sharing her story and moving people's hearts.
The one point that got my attention from this article is the fact that she and her husband now live in Mexico as if al had been just a nightmare but that their experience made a difference in the way they lived their lives now. I thought it was particularly interesting the point she makes that even though her husband had broken the law for whatever reason,as many people that fall within that category of criminals, was not given a second chance and were in many ways obligated to leave everything that they had known. She as an American citizen was not longer proud of being an American and in her own words disapointed in her owns country's system and policies. To be able to live with the person she loved she had to give a lot of her rights up by just having to move to a different country, she was not going to be able to enjoy or exercise her own rights as a citizen.
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=28&a=424310
1 comment:
This is a very interesting story. I am hearing many stories these days on individuals being deported regardless of whom they are married to. I think there needs to be reevaluations on the table that would benefit everyone, especially if children are now involved.
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