My Experience As An Immigrant In The USA

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Being and immigrant in the USA.
All Cuban has many reasons and desires to leave Cuba. For me was an imperative need. My mother was here as well as the rest of the maternal family. So family reunion got me in the path. Additionally I wanted to experience life in a different way and gain in my personal fulfilment, I wanted to study along with the possibility of travel without restrictions to know places, to experience new things.
Traveling here was not difficult but it was long and exhausting. I traveled forty eight hours in a bus from Brownsville Texas to Miami. Obviously I enjoyed the view and had the opportunity to visited most of the cities along the coast, but my body was sore after so many hours seating in the bus. Finally I got to Miami and the reunion was very emotional after one year without seen my mom and 17 year of not seen the rest of the family.
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Miami International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the country. In my opinion the simple fact to be here is a tremendous and enriching opportunity to learn, to appreciate life in a develop country. Where I come from we struggle with technology in all possible ways, here almost everything is controlled by computer and smart devises. However every place you go everybody look at you like “the balsera” (the boat traveler), the one that just arrived. Discrimination for being Cuban, for being Latin is felt constantly and it comes mainly from Cuban American themselves. But still, you give you best face and get over the obstacles ad keep