Immigrate In Haiti

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First and foremost I’m from a third world country and with it, I believe my mind sees the world differently. My parents decided to immigrate to the United States of all places because they believe that’s where I would’ve the best opportunity to grow and be well educated. They had more choices to immigrate than most from Haiti usually do due to their power and influence there. Haiti at the core even if it sorrows me to say is a corrupted country and in a place so filled with corruption money talks. My parents could’ve managed to gain visa and then later on permanent residence anywhere and they could’ve picked somewhere that would be easy for themselves such as Quebec or France where they already spoke the language but they chose the US because …show more content…

They did not know much and everything was a struggle for them. I vowed that I wouldn’t let their sacrifices be in vain but as I grew up my resolve lessened. My grades went down quite a bit in classes that I could’ve kept them up in had tried to. I looked for excuses everywhere and I found most of them in my dad. He couldn’t adjust to being in the states very well. He started cheating on my mom and then later on moved to abusing her. In the span of the eight years we were here he had slept with so many women that he had given birth to four other kids outside of marriage with three different woman. In a last ditch attempt my mom attempted to take in my half-sister and half-brothers. That did not go over well though she tried to include them in everything and treat them equally I don’t believe she ever got over the fact that them being there is proof of how little my dad cared for her and us now. That led to her treating us better and my dad playing the favoritism card. He would do way more for them and told my mom to take care of her kids and he’d take care of …show more content…

This led to a big fight between her and my dad where he attempted to beat for attempting to do something so disrespectful to him and I stepped in. I was 14 at the time and almost as tall as him and when he attempted to push and beat me around the way he did to my mom almost every weekend because he knew we wouldn’t call the cops on him. We lost that power because my mom did not how she’d provide for us without the little help he provided by paying the mortgage and would not put a restraining order on him and divorce him. She wouldn’t have gotten child support from him because at the time he was unemployed and although he had a shipping business from Miami to Haiti it did not make enough that he had to register it as a true business venue. To go back on track I resisted and put up a fight and when he realized that if we continued he would lose he called the police officers on me and tried to get me sent to juvenile detention that did not only failed to work, he was also told that he had to find another place for his kids and if he took this to court my mom would him on account of more numbers and proof that she could pay the

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