Jonnathan's story

Ten years ago my father sneaked into New York from Ecuador. He swam across a river to come to the U.S. He lived in New York and my mom stayed in Ecuador. When I was two years old, my mom came here,and I stayed in Ecuador with my grandmother and her family. Then I went to live with a family in Peru for five months because they were going to give me a visa. They had five other kids there that were coming on the plane with me. They found me a visa of a little boy with short hair, and so I had to cut my hair to look like the little boy and pretend that I was six when I was eight. Now I am nine and have been in America for one year.