“The difficulties of ‘legal’ immigration and citizenship”, by an anonymous contributor. Xpress does not typically utilize anonymous sources or writers. But as this story directly and explicitly recounts a personal story of familial immigration the writer elected for anonymity so as to protect their family’s current visa status from potential scrutiny. My mother’s first steps into the U.S. were through a jail cell. Born in a family of 10, the only male being her father, my mother was raised in a ranch near Jalisco, Mexico. Rough times pushed my mother, along with six of her siblings, into the U.S. in hopes of a better life to help support the family she had to leave behind. Along the way into the U.S., with the help of someone commonly known as a “coyote,” a smuggler, my mother was captured and placed into a jail cell. They knew she was a Mexican citizen by birthright, but for unknown reasons, she was given all her belongings, released and told to go back on her own. “I don’t know wh...