Losing My Parents to the Immigration System

Ro
8 min readOct 4, 2021

Not really the catchy title I was going for…

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It was a regular Friday morning, my dad was on his way home from his second grave yard shift that week while my mom poked her head in our room to make sure my six-year-old sister and I were awake. The smell of burnt popcorn lingered in the air from the previous night. My sister and I huffed and puffed while fighting over the sink space brushing…

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