relationship with parents?

Lately, i have been having arguments with my parents( lots of poker face n foul language) I guess as we grow older and become educated, we would start to realized our parents' mistakes and feel completely powerless of our lives... i dont know, i dont even want to look at them anymore...

Yeah it seems like we are leading identical lives here majority of us. My nature has completely changed for the worst at home. I'm very angry a lot of times. Although I don't speak any foul words, I do yell my heart out at home. Its tough. Its very tough being in this country illegally. We would've had our green card by now if my dad had filed for that labor certification crap. That 245i law could've saved us but that didn't work out either. Trust me the only way out of this situation is by leaving this country otherwise we'll all be DA User's age when DA passes.

65 + year olds seriously should be taken out of the road. I almost got in a car accident due to some 100 year old ancient smelly man swerving in and out of my lane ( and it wasn't the first time!). I understand if they want to die but I mean come on!! I am only an illegal youngster with 62 years ahead of me still.

/rant

How old is he?
I was thinking to leave after college, but now i want to drop out and just get a plane
ticket.

how do u know u only have 62 more years?! Lol

Do not make that mistake. Finish college here and then leave. Enjoy college for now, study, have some fun, and don't think about this status issue. Just giving you advice from past experience and mistakes I made. Don't think too much about getting job. If DA miraculously passes by the time you graduate, you are in business. But don't rely on that as it has a very very slim chance. I believe he is in his 30's lol..thats why I'm saying, definitely have that option of leaving on the table.

well my dad got deported two years ago, so its only my mom..but it is tough being my age and still living with my family since most people my age already have their lives set.

Me and my mom just has our usual bitching of how much of a fuck up our dad is and how he has the audacity to say we owe him for taking us to the US, when he clearly ruined all our lives by deciding to come here without a clear plan. My mom at the prime of her Dental practice and was just about to expand abandoned her profession. He was a selfish bastard that was only worried about his own ambitions and glory. Sadly, he's the loser that he was before.

My best friend from childhood, I heard about him recently. It turns out that the area where I used to live became a bad area, he started to be around the wrong people and from what I hear is involved in the drug trade and has a stash of weapons in his house. Not saying I would have turned out the same, but I do remember our childhood, we certainly liked to explore where our parents told us not to go, mind you, I was 6 or 7 at the time.

It is very easy to blame our parents for everything that goes on, particularly because we observe these issues right now and compare ourselves to those around us, however, what is the comparison to people in our countries of birth, in our age group?

Certainly, the education that I receive will be well taken back home.

But with all that mentioned, I have been getting angry at my parents lately as well, but for a different reason. Partly because everything that is going on is so incredibly frustrating, but also because they have been able to adjust their status and so now there is this tension between them and I, and them appearing as not understanding the situation anymore. There was a point I screamed back at them, my dad was just trying to be funny, but yeah.... I was not. It sounds funny to me right now, but they are no longer paying attention to immigration as they did before, and I know that when I return to Miami this break, they will take it as an opportunity to visit Colombia while I take care of their jobs and the house.

But irrespective of my relationship right now, before, I think we were good. We were all just trying to survive, all of us where working and helping each other out, playing close attention to the immigration laws, and I understood the reason we left, at the time Colombia was a worse place. It was just as frustrating for them as for me to not be able to go back to see family, to hear of a family member's death must have been harder for them than for me, I was barely 8 when I left, it was family they had known for most of their lives. It was a sacrifice for a better life, and at the time, 1996, it was possible to have a decent life even while undocumented, unlike the scenario now. There is no way they could have predicted things would turn out this way with what they knew at the time.

For the most part, we are all here because of decisions made by our parents. There was a time when I was angry at them for not being more responsible and thinking things through. However, as time passed, and I matured, I realized that we all make mistakes (parents included). I no longer blame them. I try to look at the positive side of things. With all things considered, I'm healthy and have gotten a great education. If need be, I can always return to my home country and be in a great position. And who knows where my life would be had I grown up elsewhere. I may not have gotten the educational opportunities that I've been fortunate enough to have thus far. In the end, I'm now responsible for my life and my future and it's now my turn to make tough decisions. I can now appreciate the sacrifices that my mom made for me and my siblings growing up, forgiven her mistakes, and love her for doing the best she could, given what she knew at the time.