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Flor Marina Mejía Correa was a professor of English at the University

Bogota. He now lives in County Broward, Florida and is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University
. Flor Marina also works as an interpreter for Colombian and Venezuelan migrants in the State of Florida and accepted an interview for our CP

By Al Rodas and Oyola Yulth


are already six years working as an interpreter for immigrants from Colombia and Venezuela especially those who seek political asylum in the U.S.. I am also a English teacher at FAU. Most of my students are professionals.

Colombians who migrate to Florida I think the situation of Colombian migrants is becoming increasingly difficult. The first thing is that many people that the U.S. will do so without the proper preparation and knowledge of how things are handled in U.S.. When they come here, do not know for example that have to meet two conditions to achieve legal status in the territories: a work permit and a social security and those two are very difficult to obtain. People who want to migrate to the U.S. also has in mind what is known as the "American dream

" and think the money hanging from the trees, falling from the sky and it is not bend to pick up, but the reality is harder than you think. The first fight is to get these two small and very important documents. Asylum
I have many professionals who come to Florida seeking political asylum. Especially Thursday, mayors, teachers, police, military and many others. 15 years ago things were different and those who came to the U.S. were more like workers and peasants, but now the number has changed. According to my own considerations, I believe that 95% of people who come here are professionals, at least standardized to coming to stay and seek political asylum. But this leads to several problems: first, the two documents I mentioned earlier, and without which no one can get a legal job. If they are professionals such as teachers, judges, lawyers, police stilo and things can not get those same jobs here if you do not have work permits and social security. As these documents are so difficult to achieve, these professionals, who traditionally call Colombia "doctors" have to start from scratch here in Florida and this is the second problem. Signicia fresh start to do heavy work. Just imagine a good teacher with a lot of diplomas at home, tens of thousands of pages of books in his head and having to work in a restaurant, carrying things in a store and the like. That's not easier, in a place like Florida where the weather is heavy, damp and the temperature is above 30 degrees summer. These professionals are also mature, many aged 50 and 60. A good thing to know is that in Colombia an older person finds it difficult to find a job, but at least here are considered useful to society again. That is a problem in our country, when an elderly person is almost marginalized in the U.S. while age is not seen as an obstacle to work.

I've seen people almost all of Colombia. In recent times I have seen many doctors and former mayors, many of La Costa (Cartagena de Indias, Sincelejo, San Andreas), many major cities like Bogota, Medellin and Cali. Men and women of all ages, young and old and all are treated the same way. To the U.S. authorities no distinctions among Colombians, for this reason a Colombian intellectuals who want to emigrate has to go through the same conditions as a simple person. In the U.S. there are "doctors." Asylum