After reading this story I have felt sadness and
melancholy as the young mother – Lae Choo after “loosing” her son. Besides that
Sui Sin Far depicted the sufferings of Chinese
immigrants and the story “In the Land of the Free” was an eminent example to demonstrate
the dark side of misery and sufferings. Also the story cruelly depicted
how Lae Choo suffered when Little One was held by the U.S. government, and when
Little One did not recognize her at last part of the story.
Lae Choo was supposed to reunite
with her husband and her happiness and hopes were switched into sadness and
tears because they didn’t have appropriate documents to prove the identity of
their son. She sacrificed everything for the child: she suffered all the pain
and melancholy, and gave her belonged jewelries to the lawyer. It was real altruistic
maternal love of Lae Choo!
I think it was not difficult to imagine how desperate a woman felt when she was forced to leave her biological children, and how despair she was when her child did not recognize her and mumble, - “Go ‘way, go ‘way!”
I think it was not difficult to imagine how desperate a woman felt when she was forced to leave her biological children, and how despair she was when her child did not recognize her and mumble, - “Go ‘way, go ‘way!”
On another hand, the story also
displayed how corruptive the officials were. For example, the young lawyer took
all the jewelries from desperate mother.
Do you think, are there any the
same immigration issues existing now?
I don't think there are such immigration issues existing right now, but when I came to the United States from Colombia, South America the first time; my dad was already here in advance to find a job and a place to live. And once he did we got our plane tickets and at the airport when my mom, sister and I were about to go through, the immigration officers asked for official documentation that we needed to have our father's permission to go outside the country. Even though he was already in the United States and we were about to go see him. So the immigration officers told my mom that she could go through by herself and leave us back in Colombia to wait for our father to send the documents, but my mother refused because she was not about to leave her 6 and 8 year olds by themselves then make them travel by themselves. So we just lost our plane tickets that day and two weeks later we were all able to finally travel to the United States with my father's permission since we were minors. So long story short: immigration laws are still very picky about certain things but not as extreme as the one we read in "In the land of the free."
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