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Brittney Benedict
Delaware, OH
I'm Brittney. Engaged to Nelson, who is in El Salvador right now since June of 2009. I've been through so much since he's been gone. So many ups and downs. From depression to anxiety I feel it all. To all of you who don't care about immigrants or their families, that's fantastic, keep it to yourself. You don't know what you're talking about until you have to go through it. Nelson and I have a daughter, Aleecia. She was born 8-12-09. So, because immigration, I gave birth to her without Nelson by my side. All I want is for Nelson to come home to Aleecia and I. But, he's got a 10 year bar. This is my story.
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Brittney commented on the article |I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY HATE immigration. They are heartless and cruel. I understand there needs to be some control of the borders not to let murderers or terrorists in, BUT... for the people who just want to have A BETTER LIFE and to help their families, they are not wrong to want to come here. Everybody wants some of the American Dream. Then they end up creating a family of their own while they're here, and immigration takes them away and gives them a TEN YEAR BAR??!! Let me say this again, I HATE IMMIGRATION.
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Brittney commented on the article |
Thanks, Mary. I think a 1 year bar would be reasonable enough. 10 years is just rediculous. My daughter would be 10 years old before she ever seen her father, and when she met him for the first time he'd be a stranger to her. I cannot let that happen. I'm in love with her father, I want to get married, I want us to be together as a family. So we will get him back home I don't care what it takes. God is with us.!
What's going on with all this? Is immigration even aware of the emotional damage they're doing to families?
The president is supposed to be working on all of this, but I don't see anything happening. These 10 year bars should be done away with. It's just not right.
They would not have to come here illegally in the first place if immigration did not make it so damn near impossible to come here legally. Am I right?!
Immigration does not even care about people, how can they? They take babies' daddys away from them. They take wives from husbands, husbands from wives. Or in my case, my fiance. Do they even know the reason they want to come here in the first place? Look at their living situations there in Guatamala, El Salvador, or Honduras and Mexico too. My fiance is in El Salvador and he tells me that if they worked a whole day they would only make $6.00 for the WHOLE day. Can you imagine? We can't even make a living off of $6 AN HOUR!!
This is where the world is missing God, God loves EVERYONE, and He says we should welcome those who need help, we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. What is happening to this country??
Maybe those of us who agree with what I'm saying may have to take some more drastic measures one day in the near future.
They were right to do away with slavery, but now they're treating immigrants like animals. Locking them up for months and months and deporting them back to their home countries when it's convienient to them. This whole thing is absurd.
The fact that I had to give birth to my daughter without my fiance by my side is absurd. The fact that there is a part of my heart missing now because the love of my life is thousands of miles away is just rediculous. They have no right to do this to people.
What's the saying for the Statue of Liberty? Give me your sick, your tired, your poor, your hungry? Something like that. Well.... HELLO AMERICA?! Who do you think you are.??!
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Brittney commented on the article |
I think it should be lowered to 1 year. That is pleanty enough time to be away from the people that you love. Or the bar should just be abolished completely.
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Brittney commented on the article |
are you serious? 'some of our young people could wait 5 years and sacrifice being with their spouse'????? 5 years is a very long time. what about us women that are pregnant when their significant other is just taken from them like an animal? My daughter is 3 months old now and her father has been gone for 7 months. How can you sit there and act like this is easy. You have no clue what you're talking about.
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Brittney commented on the article |
Yeah and in order to even get the bar waived, you have to prove extreme hardship. Which, according to the lawyer I talked to, has to be something that proves that you absolutely cannot go live with them in their country, like a sickness in the family or something. What immigration does not understand, depression is serious, splitting families apart is serious. And it's wrong. Depression can mess up your whole life. I should know. All I do is sit at home. I cry almost every single day. The father of my 3 month old daughter, is in El Salvador because he was deported and given a 10 year bar. He has been gone for 7 months. So he does not know how it feels to even hold his baby in his arms. This whole thing just sucks. That this is even able to happen to families is just rediculous. It's not fair at all. It's horrible.
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