Dear Editor:
I lived in USA for 13 years, I was blessed with two kids, Andrea is the oldest then Byron whom is the youngest one, I worked as a counselor for troubled youth, for many years and while I worked as a counselor I also volunteered to work with people with disabilities. Because my job does not pay a huge salary, my wife decided to work with disabled toddlers and pre-school special children. I honestly believe that we made an impact on all of these children's lives, to the point that in 2001 while we were on vacation at Disneyland there was a guy whispering at his wife and then staring at us, I was quite
uncomfortable and the suddenly this man approached me and said: "I would like you guys to meet my wife Cheryl," and it was a kid whom we used to be his foster parents, but now he is a little overweight and with a mustache, (so we did not recognize him) Then he said, in front of his wife, I am the man that I am today because of you guys. He was in probation and thought of himself as a loser back at our Group Home in 1989, but that day he was a winner. I could use so many pages writing stories, of kids and what such a good people they became, and then when I worked with single moms as a self sufficiency counselor, my wife can share many stories of the families with disabled children, that we visited in our time to give some hope, some happiness and most all of all a lot of pride for being blessed with an special child. We gave hundreds of speeches to families just because it was a joy for us to
share our own experiences with Andrea. However, now it is kind of difficult to share all of this because all the
things that my wife and I did to help American families, American children all of those things were done by two illegal immigrants.
I was deported. Now we are back in our country of birth as strangers, I am in my heart 100% American, I can die for the US anyday, but I can not go back. I left my life in the US and what it make it worse is that my children cannot get medical attention, school, I mean the basics because they are foreigners, they are American citizens and do not belong here, then Andrea's life is harder for her because she is not only foreign but a disabled baby, and being disabled in a third world country is just extremely and unusually hard. Seeing how my kids live here everyday is worse than any punishment.
Bayron Sanchez
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