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Struggles for immigrants coming to the US

  This blog is about my reflections on the history of immigration in the US and my own situation of trying to bring my wife to the US. The history of immigration to the US goes far beyond the Eurocentric history often taught in schools. Immigration policies acted as filters for whom would be allowed to enter the country, allowing pathways for white Christians' from Europe and blocking entry for the rest. It wasn't until 1952, that non-White immigrants were finally legally allowed to enter the country and immigration policies began to shift. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, was a landmark bill that eliminated the racial quota, replacing it with a category system that favors people who have relatives in the US and specialized professional skills. Since 1965, the number of immigrants from non-Europe countries sky rocketed, and now make up most of the immigrant population. Immigration policies still have a long way to go, until they are more equitable, and I am living through the ugly side of the immigration process at the time of this writing.

It is incredibly hard to migrate to the US today, and I'm living it now, since I'm still waiting for my fiancé's visa after two years. What's most frustrating is that the government doesn't even provide accurate information on the process. The mechanisms of how and when visas get approved is invisible to the public. The hard reality is that immigrants get treated like second class citizens along the way. My fiancé had her interview in early December and the officer told her it would take 10 days for the visa to get to her. I had been living in MX while waiting for the visa, and decided to leave MX in order to find a place to live in the US. I did that, found a great apartment and everything but unfortunately I needed to come back to Mexico because its's been almost 2 months and we still don't know anything about the visa. This has been a really eye opening experience for me, and I think that major immigration reform in the US is needed. As a nation of immigrants, we need to have a system that is more fair and humane, that considers the lives of the people waiting and how their lives are directly impacted by them.

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