Trabajo de idioma Inglés - Immigration

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Nombre: Cintia Contreras

Matricula: 292756

Nombre del curso: Inglés III

Profesora: Norma Castillo

Actividad: 6.2 Actividad Integradora

Fecha: 15 de noviembre 2015

Immigration 

Allen Ouellette

This story tells about a family looking to go to America as refugees and will make an interview to see if they are qualified. Before the family go to the interview room, the interviewer saw the record of the father, how said it was distracted, he was in jail along with his son, and many other things.

Then, the interpreter called them to the room and told them to sit in a semi-circle, was a small family, the father, mother and son, much taller than his father, who sat between them with a scared and confused face.

They began with the formal part, and then the interview. The father, who was military, reflecting everything that came in the notes made by the case worker, in almost every question he looked at his son for approval or something like that, and sometimes looked at the mother, but she was quiet.

The son and father were arrested on the same day but in different places. The son was taken from his home when soldiers stormed looking for weapons. The father was arrested on the road. They were taken to the same prison but in different places, so they didn't know that the other was there. In the early days of prison the son was severely beaten, he was held for three weeks, and was released with the help of a former teacher and neighbor who was a new guard.. The same day he was released, the Red Cross investigators  went to the prison to register the prisoners, but they said they had no record of the father.

When they found where the father  was, they tried to visit frequently, but sometimes would not let him see it. Eight months after he was arrested, the father was taken to a place neutral and released as a prisoner exchange, and that's when the beatings he received was known, and that the move from place inside the prison and that's why authorities Red Cross never saw him.

The interviewer ask to the father how long he spend in prison, but he said he wasn't in prison, but at the same time the mother said that had beaten his son too. A conversation emerged between the family, but the interviewer didn't understand what they said and the interpreter only said to have beaten the son too.

 Then, the son said that his father often doesn't remember things, the guards took turns beating him, trying to break him down and when asked if he had ever been in prison the father said no because this memory was blocked. The father was concerned because his son had told him he had to tell the truth, and that if he did not could not go to America, so had tried to remember everything he could but he forgot things and need remember.

Upon hearing the story and seeing that family the interviewer gave them refugee status. Father, mother and son became very happy, hugged and left the room.

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