Trump Illegal Immigration - Self Deportation By Former Illegal Now US Citizen Julian Raven

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 28, 2016 - PRLog -- I came to America as a British citizen on a 3-month tourist visa in 1996.  My plan was to pass through the US on my way to South America as a Christian missionary, being bilingual in English and Spanish.  After three months my attempts to change my legal status in the US were unsuccessful.  I became an illegal alien by overstaying my visa.

After 2 years of trying to get my legal status changed I was at the end of my journey through the shadows of being an 'ILLEGAL' alien.  My conscience was continually bothered by my illegal status, which in many ways made me a second-class unwanted guest in America.  As a Christian it was particularly bothersome since Christians are biblically required to obey the government, which on many occasions friends of mine reminded me about.

In the midst of this journey I had met a fine woman and fallen in love.  Marriage was now a way for me to get a green card.  But sadly accusations from my fiancé's family dogged our courtship since her father wrongly accused me of wanting to marry her to get my Green Card.

It is a particularly demeaning experience to be living under the table.  It stripped me of much of my freedom to be who I was since I was always aware that I was illegal and that others knew this since I was not one to hide my struggle for legal status.  Marriage was now a way for me to solve my problem, but I did not want to have that accusation hanging over my head.  My journey as an illegal alien ended when I decided to surrender to the authorities and leave the country on my own.

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