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Personal Narrative: Student Immigrant

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I first moved to Texas and in particular to South Texas on the summer of 2001. Immediately after I got here I enrolled for classes for the Fall Semester at the University of Texas Pan American as an international student. On the morning of September 11, 2001 while I was getting ready for class I watched with horror on television, as many Americans did that day, the terrorist attack that unfolded in New York city, as well as the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. At first, the sheer destruction and the astounding amount of casualties was what I remember vividly, but that event will have a direct effect on me without even knowing it at the moment. You see, when I first came here, I came with a student visa, just like the terrorists that boarded the airplanes that were involved in the terrorist act. …show more content…

So in other words, if you were here on a student visa, you had to be input into an online database. Since I was young and you may say naïve during those times, I never updated my visa to the online version, resulting in my visa to be invalid. In my defense, I never received any letter or notification that I had to take action. So within a few days, I had immigration officers coming by my house and asked me to go to the Immigration station at Harlingen, Texas. After they performed the necessary procedures they allowed me to go and they set up a court hearing with an immigration Judge to discuss my

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