Family Reunification In The United States

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When you have a family, or even friends you call family, you feel as if it is your duty to protect them no matter what right? Well, what if you couldn’t protect them even if you wanted to? That feeling of security and peace of mind is taken and there isn’t a thing in the world you can do. The frustration of being nervous got to me as I tried figuring out what to wear to court where I would see my mother and 11 year old sisters. The only thing running through my mind was the fear of losing the case I had been trying so hard to fight to end, and in the mix possibly losing my sisters too. Being taken away from my family and put into foster care I knew early on that this case for family reunification had to come to an end, so that none of us had

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