Buying a home can be a ticket out of poverty. It can symbolize a shift from the poor camp to the middle class. Owning a house can represent a sense of financial security and mobility for many families and their children.
A few days ago, Kate Brumback from the Associated Press reported that Lorenzo Jimenez finally found his ticket about four years ago to buy his first home in a suburb outside Atlanta. But Mr. Jimenez had one problem that many working fathers don’t have to consider when buying a house for their family.
While Mr. Jimenez had been working and paying taxes in the United States for about a decade, he didn’t have the documents required to prove his American patriotism. In other words, Mr. Jimenez didn’t have the papers to prove his citizenship. But he could prove his work ethic and that he was a lovely father by taking a quick survey from his closest neighbors, even from Nicole Griffin – but only before Mr. Jimenez put his house on the market.
Nicole Griffin is a 28-year-old single mother that lives down the street with her mom. She also didn’t mind if her two kids play with Mr. Jimenez’s children inside of his home. But all of this changed after Mr. Jimenez decided to sell his house.
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Filed under: Politics, immigration | Tagged: American Dream, American patriotism, buying a house, citizenship, FAIR, financial security, immigrants, immigration, interest rate, middle class, paying taxes, poverty, single mother, work ethic
