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    The Immigrant
    The Immigrant
    The Immigrant
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    The Immigrant

    By Cathelife

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    The Immigrant is an informative book. It is a journalistic work based on real events. It tells the story of Mara, who experienced a history of domestic violence and immigrated to the USA with the hope of saving her son in order to not repeat her story. After more than twenty years, she overcame many obstacles and graduated in law. She is dedicated to defending the rights of the immigrants.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateOct 24, 2016
    ISBN9781506517094
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      The Immigrant - Cathelife

      Copyright © 2016 by Cathelife.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2016917422

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5065-1710-0

      eBook         978-1-5065-1709-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

      Rev. date: 18/10/2016

      Palibrio

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Suite 200

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter I Life And Experiences Of Mara

      Chapter II Consequences Of Terrorism

      Chapter III The Hope Of The Undocumented

      Chapter IV The Beginnings Of Discrimination

      Chapter V Reflexion

      To my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, until my last generation. Thanks to all immigrants, from the early settlers to those of our era, who arrived to this nation to build a strong and majestic country.

      Preface

      T he Immigrant is a work of journalistic research based on real facts.

      CHAPTER I

      Life And Experiences Of Mara

      A t the age of seven, Mara realized their economic status and was not happy. Her home was composed of a room with two beds. In one, she slept with her sisters, and in the other were Dad, Mom, and the little brother. In total, there were five siblings. They lived in a suburb of some part of South America, in a dump where there were many families. Each house had a room and a kitchen, but no water or sewage system. There was only a tube ( Caño , as the neighborhood called it) that was used by shifts.

      Her father was an alcoholic. Her mother told them that when she met him, he was a very handsome man that wanted to enter in the naval forces, but he had failed the exam, only by failing to include the number after the decimal. They had been frustrated. Since then he began to drink. He was very young; he was only eighteen when his wife was pregnant and he had to face up to his commitments to work as constructor, carpenter, etc.

      Mara’s mother was a woman of fragile character in her own world; for her, everything was fine. She believed when the husband promised he would not drink more liquor, but he did not fulfill his promise and would disappear for weeks, leaving her without money for food for their children. While Mara and her brothers suffered hunger, her mother used to shut herself in and wash clothes for hours, with her mind blank, without hearing the cries of the children. Now Mara thought that her mother had a mental illness. She felt traumatized because of the separation of her parents, when her father left her mother for another woman.

      The truth is she grew up with a stepmother who was abusive. The father used to return home after several weeks, all dirty, almost dragged, and beaten. She have witness how her mother healed her father and bathed him. Her mother had to borrow money to feed her dad. When finally he was sober, he said he was going to work and buy food and promised his wife that on payment day, they would go shopping. When Saturday came, her mother was excited, waiting for her dad to go shopping. But time passed and he did not appear. In the end, the children fell asleep, tired, sleepy, and hungry.

      When Mara was thirteen, her uncle, who worked in a notary, got her a job as an assistant during their school holidays. After three months, she hoped to return to school, but her uncle and her mother gave her the news that she could no longer go to school because she had to continue working to help in their finances. Mara knelt, wept, begged her mother to let her continue her studies because it was what she most wanted, but she ended up understanding that she had to get her family out of the situation they were in.

      So she continued working

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