Airport Security

I Know That Airport Security Makes No Exceptions
"If you leave before applying, your application may be considered “abandoned” and you will have to start the process all over again from outside the United States. You might not be able to return to the United States for many months"("International Programs").
I came to this country at the age of five on a tourist’s visa with my mother. My father had already been living in this country for 14 years. After some time of coming and going in and out of the country my mother decided it was time to apply for a permanent residency. Sometime after starting the process to become a resident of the United States, my grandmother needed to have an immediate surgical procedure done, so my mother and I rushed

Knowing that I was flying in the sky made me feel like a superhero. We landed at the Dulles airport around five in the afternoon, it had been a long day and all I wanted to do was sleep. Everyone that sat with us in the airplane were rushing to get out to eat everyone one else to the customs area. After waiting in the line for what at that time seemed like forever it was finally our turn. Everything was going pretty well until the officer was murmuring strange words into his walkie talkie. Not even a minute later two giant men in a navy blue uniform came strolling down the aisle in our direction. They told us to accompany them and they led us into a small dull room where they proceeded to ask my mother a million questions about her intentions to enter the United States of America. The men in that small room took our photos and digital fingerprints. After interrogating my mother they led us into a waiting room with plastic blue seats. They had us wait in that empty waiting room where the seats were unpleasantly cold. We slept in that violently silent room. Throughout the night they took my mother in for question about five times, and of course I trailed behind her all five of those times. They asked her the same questions over and over again. My mother barley answered the questions because of how hard she was crying. At those moments all I wanted to do was get in an airplane so I could feel like a superhero