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An All-American Immigrant's Thanksgiving Story

An All-American Immigrant's Thanksgiving Story

An All-American Immigrant's Thanksgiving Story
Nov 26, 2020 1 min, 47 secs

"When I hear 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' I want to cry," Aron Marquez confessed.

"I would tell her, Mom, when I grow up, you're not going to have to work.

"It's something I didn't want," he said, "though we never traveled anywhere, did anything or had anything.

When Marquez learned that moving to America would mean his mom would work less, his opinion changed.

"If Mom didn't have to work all the time, I didn't care where it was.".

"You can imagine trying to adjust, not speaking English," he said.

And you do it every day." All Marquez remembers was the hours, and the heat.

I didn't speak English, so I'd knock on a door, and if somebody that answered didn't speak Spanish, I pointed at my lawnmower and said $10.".

And I was able to get my boots," Marquez said, beaming.

"The teacher spoke Spanish, the books were written in Spanish, we were segregated in our own group," Marquez said.

"I want to be in the regular class," he said.

"One, because I want to play soccer.

I want to learn to speak English.

And no offense, I'm not going to learn English when you're teaching me everything in Spanish.

This isn't going to work for me.".

"She said, 'This is your first day, so I don't know how you're drawing those conclusions.

It's for your parents to decide.' I politely asked, 'How different is this going to be tomorrow and the next day?'".

"And that's when life began for me in school and education and meeting new friends," Marquez said.

But I don't want to get any special privileges.

"You're not going to grow being in your comfort zone.".

And I told him, 'Man, I'm going to learn to speak English in the next three or four months, and that will make two languages for me and you'll only be able to speak one.

"He never said anything again, no one else did, and no one laughed," Marquez said.

"I got a $22,000 bonus when I was working at Nabors and used it to pay for everyone in my family to become American citizens," Marquez said

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