Light skinned, British and Undocumented

She imagined the streets here paved with gold, a country where every day was like a Hollywood movie. The United States, in her mind, was everything her hometown, the English port city of Hull, was not.
Growing up poor, life was tough for Burns. She and a sibling were raised by a mother who supported the family on a teacher's salary. Hull, in Yorkshire, was insulated, a city with a small-town mentality where, according to Burns, "everybody was in everybody's business."

www.ocregister.com/articles/burns-237401-immigrants-immigration.html


[posted by: Alejandro Jimenez]