American Dream Feel Good Story- I Hope

[midtown 3346]

I always love the pics or videos of hard working immigrants showing up to their kids HS graduations in their work clothes.    Dad is covered in dirt from doing brick work or washing dishes to see his kids have a better life.  Or the ones where the kids walk across the border in their gowns to see their parents.   Fuck yeah.  That's what this country is about and has always been about.   

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as a first-gen immigrant and multi-country expat, america is the best, easiest, most opportunity-laden to 'get ahead'.  if you cant make it there, you aint got nobody to blame but yourself

[Guest Lobo]

Do you even Liechtenstein, bro?  

[used2b 249]

Love it.

[hayden_horn 11362]

On 7/9/2021 at 11:12 PM, immortal13 said:

Dreamer? Sounds cloak roomy

does it?

i don't think it does. this is a thread about the american dream of an immigrant whose status is not clear. i love stories like these. we can take it to a cloak room convo if you want, but honestly, i just love it when people come here and succeed. i want that to continue and not be punished. it's a great story.

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18 hours ago, midtown said:

I always love the pics or videos of hard working immigrants showing up to their kids HS graduations in their work clothes.    Dad is covered in dirt from doing brick work or washing dishes to see his kids have a better life.  Or the ones where the kids walk across the border in their gowns to see their parents.   Fuck yeah.  That's what this country is about and has always been about.   

I've had people apologize for showing up to an( entry level) interview in their work clothes.

You just aced the first question.  Moving on, now...

[TwiceHorn 31497]

10 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

does it?

i don't think it does. this is a thread about the american dream of an immigrant whose status is not clear. i love stories like these. we can take it to a cloak room convo if you want, but honestly, i just love it when people come here and succeed. i want that to continue and not be punished. it's a great story.

Whenever I hear one of these stories, I am curious about the "strings pulled" (OPs' term) to legalize citizenship.

The normal path to permanent residency and citizenship is difficult, so I am always curious.  I think military service has been a common route in the past.

[fattyflattie 4639]

13 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

does it?

i don't think it does. this is a thread about the american dream of an immigrant whose status is not clear. i love stories like these. we can take it to a cloak room convo if you want, but honestly, i just love it when people come here and succeed. i want that to continue and not be punished. it's a great story.

I hate the CR but would absolutely be interested if he was a dreamer.  This story is the idea behind the program. 

[CHIEF 5094]

Here's mine...I've told it on here before, on another thread. 

I've always lived in "ranching" country from 8th grade until college. My 8th grade year, I rode the bus about 200 miles per day. The bus driver lived about a mile from me, so I was first on, and last off.

A young Mexican kid, Blas, and his younger siblings were the next on/off. So Blas and I spent a lot of time together. His parents were undocumented, and worked in the Plantation Foods turkey plucking plant. They would show up at the bus stop in a 1970's Olds 98 with 15 people in the car. Blas and the others would hop out and get on the bus. He was always a great kid, and we spent the time on the bus polishing up his English, while I learned a little Spanish. We were pretty tight friends. The next year, I had to drive to school because the buses ran before football practice was over.

Well, a few years ago, Blas' name came up on Facebook. So I hit him up to see what he was up to. He had moved one school district over to a 2A school where he graduated as Valedictorian. But he, also being undocumented, wasn't able to accept any of his scholarship offers. 

Blas went into the army, where he became a Master Sergeant at the end of his 20 years of service. His service granted him US citizenship, and he has been all over the World. I've seen pictures of him and his family in Venice, Berlin, Paris, London, etc. Last year was the best, his absolutely gorgeous daughter had graduated Magna Cum Laude from Baylor. To be honest, it was kinda dusty. He has gone a long way from being that little kid getting out of that packed to the gills Olds 98 with his Goodwill and garage sale wardrobe to where he is today. He was always happy, determined, and his parents were determined that he would have a better life than they had, they gave him the opportunity. He had that same determination for his kids.

CHIEF

[fattyflattie 4639]

Pics of gorgeous Mexican Baylor grad, por favor? 
 

Para un amigo. 

Edited July 11, 2021 by fattyflattie

[CHIEF 5094]

1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

Pics of gorgeous Mexican Baylor grad, por favor? 
 

Para un amigo. 

I'd love to. But I can only imagine about 20 ways a 20 year Master Sergeant could dispose of my body.

CHIEF

[immortal13 4059]

2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

does it?

i don't think it does. this is a thread about the american dream of an immigrant whose status is not clear. i love stories like these. we can take it to a cloak room convo if you want, but honestly, i just love it when people come here and succeed. i want that to continue and not be punished. it's a great story.

I want

[sheeeit 129]

On 7/9/2021 at 9:37 PM, Larry T. Spider said:

Is the wife teaching at a private school? She can start at 50+ in public school and get a 6k stipend if she is bilingual.

Appreciate all of the responses.  

I am not sure where she is teaching.  I did not talk to her directly about it as I was just talking with the dad.  However, I am going to pass on a note to the dad.  An extra $1,000/month would be huge for them.  Thanks

[sheeeit 129]

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Whenever I hear one of these stories, I am curious about the "strings pulled" (OPs' term) to legalize citizenship.

The normal path to permanent residency and citizenship is difficult, so I am always curious.  I think military service has been a common route in the past.

Honestly, I purposefully did not ask too many questions about the citizenship.  There are a few smaller law firms around (they do not really advertise) that specialize in nothing but green cards and citizenship.  We used one of them (their primary customers are from the horse racing industry).  The legal fees were about $6,000.  He still had to take the test but he received citizenship which then automatically granted citizenship on his family.

[Larry T. Spider 1746]

3 hours ago, sheeeit said:

Appreciate all of the responses.  

I am not sure where she is teaching.  I did not talk to her directly about it as I was just talking with the dad.  However, I am going to pass on a note to the dad.  An extra $1,000/month would be huge for them.  Thanks

I’m the principal of an elementary school. Let me know if she ever needs anything.

[atomheartbevo 89732]

I have a lot of respect for a lot of these folks - I was banging this single mom with two daughters from some Central American country.  She had moved up here and lived with her extended family in a mobile home (granted it was a double-wide, but it's still a lot of people in a mobile home), and she came here speaking no English.  She went to UT and earned an MIS degree, and went on to NYU and earned an MBA.  She was an extremely hard worker.  Need to look her up and see what she's done since NYU.

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I have a lot of respect for a lot of these folks - I was banging this single mom with two daughters from some Central American country.  She had moved up here and lived with her extended family in a mobile home (granted it was a double-wide, but it's still a lot of people in a mobile home), and she came here speaking no English.  She went to UT and earned an MIS degree, and went on to NYU and earned an MBA.  She was an extremely hard worker.  Need to look her up and see what she's done since NYU.

Well..... hopefully she's found a better class of boyfriends ....

 

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