Today was slightly better than yesterday, but thats not saying much. After I paid Immigration the big bucks (which was a marathon in and of itself), I learned that I will be escorted by police to the airport on Thursday to ensure that I in fact leave the country. The humiliation of being criminalized when I did everything in my power to be here legally is horrible. I will never know what happened behind the scenes, but I know that I was set up for mercenary purposes, and I know that I received appalling legal counsel, for which I paid a great deal. It will take me a long time to forgive the people who have put me through this just so I could be a present mother to my child. My sister keeps saying that shes never seen me so fragile, and its true. I need you to pray us home, because Im not well, and this is only the start of another fantastically difficult chapter in which my son will lose his country, his daddy, his racial majority status, his extended family, his familiar. I honestly cant say Im excited to return to the US. All I feel is relief and dread and then relief again that the end of this particular drama is in sight, because *everything* is easier in the U.S. Im just being honest…Im too broken to feel excited about anything right now, especially when I know I will miss my husband for close to a year if we fit in the averages of Visa processing. All this to say, we got over a hurdle today, but it was a shitty one, and Thursday is going to be the most complex mixed bag in my life, which will be accompanied by a police officer from start to finish. We need to find a way in this world for borders to be more fluid, so just know youll be getting my Immigration Reform appeals just as soon as Im back on my feet again. Guarantee it. And thats the update for today. Ciao.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:53:09 +0000
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