I was
reading a long article who has been recently deported to his Native Mexico
leaving behind his American wife and American born kids in the U.S. He was
reportedly brought here illegally when he was only 10 and never went back to
his native Mexico and his parents never did establish any contact with their
relatives there. He stayed here, got education and married and had kids and had
a successful business but he was here illegally. Despite the best efforts of
this family and others in the community he was deported to this native Mexico
where he lives with his aunt where he feels like an alien since he had no
contact with this native land. His family is trying to arrange for him to come
back but it will take at least 18 months before he would be interviewed by the
U.S. Embassy. On the face of it, it seems like a heart breaking story about a
person who has not committed a crime but was illegally smuggled to the U.S.
when he was only 10.
But here
is the rub that this parents or whoever brought him to the United States turned
their backs on their native and never instilled any kind of contact with his
relatives in Mexico which is strange in itself as with the new technology
nowadays, he could have been contact with some of his relatives in Mexico via
many apps. Family does not only mean his wife and kids, it means his relatives
too. I can understand that when he was little he did not know, but after
gaining adulthood, he could have reached out to his relatives in Mexico (maybe
he did or did not) so that he would have felt a little bit connected to his
Native land or the place where his ancestry came from. I can feel the pain that
his family is now in but my advice is to keep in touch with your extended
family wherever they are because in the end a family is a family even if they
are not physically near you.
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