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The cops looked at each other, and would later congratulate themselves for not suggesting this crazy lady’s idiot husband had gotten himself kidnapped by the cartel. 

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You think you’re afraid of them now? You should be afraid of what they will become – warriors. 

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And just look at what a threat my family turned out to be. As I write, you in the home my grandfather built, and me, a fiercely proud immigrant’s daughter with the natural-born right to turn your pointed finger back on yourself.

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The odds of still getting approved are slim to none, but I also haven’t officially been denied yet.

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Trump’s anti-immigration views aren’t anything new. For people who have watched the 2016 election, he has constantly made claims to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexican borders. Ironically, Donald Trump’s mother was a Scottish immigrant who didn’t get citizenship until 1942.

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Your identity will be uniquely yours. Whether your parents are from different countries or you moved someplace else as a child, your identity will be comprised of at least two different cultures.

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I am as Latin as it comes. You hate them yet love me.

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Sometimes I still feel like an alien on some awful planet but I know that I am not alone. I am a Dominican American, born in the USA from an immigrant parent.