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My longstanding nanny, Sonia, is an immigrant from Ecuador. Ecuador is located in South America, next to Colombia and Peru. I consider Sonia to be a second mother to me, as she has watched over me since I was six months old.\u00a0Sonia left Ecuador for the United States in the 1990s. She left her country as there was no economic opportunity for her there. She wanted to build a better life for herself by working in America, and then later bring her family to the United States. She flew from Ecuador to Mexico, then she took a car from Mexico to the United States. Sonia told me that some of the hardest things for her when moving to America was coming to a country with nobody that she knows, having to learn English on her own, and leaving her newborn daughter and the rest of her family back in Ecuador.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sonia did not receive her status as a citizen of the United States until November of 2007 when I was ten months old. She waited almost twenty years to become a citizen. Her story of hardship, perseverance, and resilience throughout her journey to become a citizen opened by eyes at a fairly young age about how fortunate I am to live in a country like the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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My longstanding nanny, Sonia, is an immigrant from Ecuador. Ecuador is located in South America, next to Colombia and Peru. I consider Sonia to be a second mother to me, as she has watched over me since I was six months old.\u00a0Sonia left Ecuador for the United States in the 1990s. She left her country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-stories23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}