It is probably very difficult for you to imagine that today would be the last day you would see your parents, your children or your siblings. But to me, this is nothing but an experience.
My name is Veronica, I’m from a typical mixed-status family. I joined CASA de Maryland when I was 17 because I wanted to fight to keep my family together. My family has been torn apart for five years and it is an experience that I want nobody to go through. The only communication my family has is phone calls between us.
It might be hard to imagine your last day before your family is ripped apart, but it wouldn’t be difficult to imagine how a mother would feel when she couldn’t hold her children as they are crying, when she couldn’t be around at the times when her children are going to school, when she could only hear their voices through a cold machine instead of giving them a hug. It wouldn’t be difficult for us to imagine what it would be like if a mother couldn’t say “I love you” to her children face-to-face. And these are the feelings that my mother has every day.
I’m here to encourage everyone to help families like mine fight for a pathway to citizenship. It’s unfair to separate hardworking families because of our broken immigration system. We need nothing less than a pathway to citizenship.
To stand with Veronica, text “Justice” or “justicia” to 69866 and learn more about how we can Keep Families Together.
