My Open Letter to the President:
My name is Almedina Wear. I am a 22- almost 23 year old, mother of a 17 month old girl, wife of a retired corporal in the Marine Corps (OORAH) and college student studying to become a math teacher.
My life, isn't your average American story. I was born in Bosnia, on June 2 1991. My mother and father were both born and raised in Bosnia as well. My younger sister, Elvedina or Ellie for short, was born in Austria when my mother(pregnant with my sister) and i moved there so my father to stay back and fight in the war. My country was destroyed because an evil man decided he didn't like certain "Bosnia-Muslims" and wanted to "purify" the country. When my father made it back, they had made a decision to get our family out of Bosnia and move to America.
Now we didn't just hop on a boat and come here, we didn't swim here and we sure as hell didn't jump a fence. We had joined a program to find sponsors to help fund us and support us in our journey to America. I was too young to understand what was happening, I just knew we were leaving our family, friends and life behind to go to America.
Once we LEGALLY got our green cards, we moved in with our sponsors and lived with them for about a year or so. In that year, my parents found multiple jobs to support our family. They enrolled me school, were i had to learn to read, write and speak English. My sister was too young at the time to start school.
After that year or so, we moved out of our sponsors house, found a two bedroom apartment to live in ourselves. Again, my parents had to work multiple jobs to support us, my sister and i were both in school at this time. Fast forward a few more years, my family decided to move again. They found this up and coming new town-home complex. We were there to see our house get built and we planned everything for that house. Once we moved into that house, the real journey began. On top of my parents STILL working multiple jobs to make ends meet, they also start the process of becoming naturalized. In the day they would work, at time they would take English classes so they could learn to speak, write and read English.
From the day we moved to the United States of America to the day they got their citizenship papers, it took my mother and father 10 YEARS!!
10 years of paper work, 10 years of endless classes, 10 years of working their butts off, all because they wanted a better life for my sister and I. 10 years, sir. that is half my life. Because my sister and i were under the required age, we got naturalized under my parents.
Now, im the type of person that kinda sits back and lets the world turn, UNTIL i see something wrong!! You sir are ruining this country. You are belittling the middle and upper class and making the middle and lower class THINK they are better and deserve things they haven't worked for.
Immigration is a very soar subject for me because of what my family HAD to do to become citizens of this great country. you are ALLOWING illegal people come and just TAKE what they please without working for it. allowing them to think they deserve things others have worked for. shame on you, shame on your staff and shame on this congress for letting you get away with more than enough!!
you don't deserve the honor of being president, you are under-qualified, a liar, a thief, and worse you want to divide this country!! this country has been through too much to let a man like you destroy it!!
