Posts by Nancy Andrade
My Name is Nancy and I am Undocumented
Published February 27, 2009 @ 05:30AM PT
Once My Fetters Have Fallen...
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
-Mahatma Gandhi
What happens when you see your dreams vanish in the air? When a piece of paper that doesn't exist in your reality transforms your goals into uncertainty?
My name is Nancy and I am 23 years old. I was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico but raised in the United States. On a sunny August day of 1985, when I was only 5 months old, my parents began their journey to what they thought would be freedom and happiness. Like every parent, they wanted the best for their daughter - an education, freedom, and safety. The United States represented all of that and more. Little did they know, I would be sitting here, in this small cluttered room, 23 years later, typing a narrative that propels me back into my devastating reality.
