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SamuelPittmanFirstEssay 5 - 06 Apr 2023 - Main.SamuelPittman
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Never Far from Danger –Protecting Liberty at the Southern Border | | | I Don’t Know My Parents
I have never met my mom, but I had always assumed that she was trying to protect me from danger. However, as I have grown older, I am afraid that I have either been misled or lied to, because truth be told, no one knows what she was thinking. | |
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< | I was adopted as an infant from Guatemala. Part of me has had to deal with the fact that I have always felt a little stripped of my free will. Life can feel like such a duality: I could have been one place, but I am here instead. You could have grown up in Guatemala, but you are in America instead. This feeling of constant tug has never left me but overtime I came to recognize the genuine transformative power of being a naturalized U.S. citizen. | >
> | I was adopted as an infant from Guatemala. Part of me deals with the fact that I have always felt a little stripped of my free will. Life can feel like such a duality: I could have been one place, but I am here instead. You could have grown up in Guatemala, but you are in America instead. This feeling of constant tug has never left me but overtime I came to recognize the genuine transformative power of being a naturalized U.S. citizen. | | | I have found a way forward and it seems to be law school.
I know what I ultimately want my legal education to do for me. I am on a journey to identify the skills necessary to assist individuals in my home country of Guatemala in obtaining access to their legal right to apply for asylum and citizenship within the United States. | |
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< | While I don’t wish the identity crisis that may come with adoption onto anyone else, I recognize that the current conditions of our immigration system leave me with no choice but to act. | >
> | | | | The current state of our immigration system is unacceptable. | | | I only understand one thing in property: | |
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< | My motivation for my practice may at the baseline be explained by Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Legislation– property and law are born together, and die together. The challenge of counteracting the obstacles of a standstill Legislative branch and the inevitable digitization of the border seem to present a hard fight. But the law can be changed and the idea of something being a challenge doesn't diminish what my practice stands for. The idea of immigration law chaning is now a realty, but now I have to anticipate what changes will occur. A lawyer is never far from danger. Now that I am at law school, I have recognized my practice and my law degree will lead me to witness more loss than gain. But, knowing that, I can at least start to brainstorm other reasons why my mom did what she did. Danger was inevitably going to find me as a law student. So, maybe my mom wasn’t trying to protect me, but rather, give me the opportunity to go and protect others. | >
> | My motivation for my practice may at the baseline be explained by Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Legislation– property and law are born together, and die together. The challenge of counteracting the obstacles of a standstill Legislative branch and the inevitable digitization of the border seem to present a hard fight. But the law can be changed and the idea of something being a challenge doesn't diminish what my practice stands for. United States Immigration policing will not alter course. I believe despite the current challenge, what Bentham provides is basis for the possibility of change. A lawyer is never far from danger. Now that I am at law school, I have recognized my practice and my law degree will lead me to witness loss. But, knowing that, I can at least start to brainstorm other reasons why my mom did what she did. Danger was inevitably going to find me as a law student. So, maybe my mom wasn’t trying to protect me, but rather, give me the opportunity to go and protect others. | | |
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