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 In many ways, this nation clips the very wings immigrants came here to fly with. They become entrapped, but their dreams continue to grow nonetheless—possibly with even more force. Jimmy still dreams of returning to Huehuetenango one day. He still dreams of making his mother her favorite meal: a pot of atol de elote, caldo de pollo, and handmade tortillas, he told me. Dominga is now 80 years old and has entirely lost her vision. But even though Jimmy seems to let reality sink in every now and then—subtly acknowledging the likeliness of his mother’s passing before their reunion—he remains as adamant as I was when I missed my parents across the Atlantic Ocean, counting down the days until they meet again.

Only I have always had a big airplane to take me back to them. As our country has debated the merits of immigration reform, we’ve grown accustomed to defending undocumented immigrants like Jimmy as dollar signs and economic assets rather than as simple humans deserving of basic dignity. Relegated to the shadows, it’s as if we’ve forgotten that immigrants too once led lives under the sun. Before the United States, there were lives lived, memories made, and mothers loved—all sacrificed for the illusion of better opportunities on this side of the border. No one told them that starting over meant surrendering their past. Today, more than half of undocumented immigrants have been here for 10 years or longer, and thousands of Dreamers—those who came here as children—are now in their 30s and 40s. We’ve been trained to reward this longevity as Americanness when really it was at the expense of their freedom.

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