{"id":2816,"date":"2010-07-02T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2010\/07\/02\/at-the-end-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T19:34:32","slug":"at-the-end-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"at-the-end-of-the-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my job.  It&#8217;s stressful, maddening, unfair, but in the end I can come home on days like this and say it was completely worth it.  Every second of it.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an Accredited Representative.  To those who work in the immigration field, it means I can legally represent immigrants, and my credentials extend into the courtroom.  I help immigrants, but my niche is victims of crime.  It means that I&#8217;ve seen and heard it all, and I&#8217;m amazed sometimes that I can just shut it all down when I leave work.  Maybe that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve started up my little rambling site again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And today two of my clients became legal permanent residents of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about calling them victims, but the truth is they&#8217;re not really victims anymore.  They&#8217;re survivors.  They&#8217;ve escaped abusive households and have started to make better lives for themselves and their children.  And this is just one more step towards citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m celebrating because my clients got their green cards.  Especially A.  A. has a disability that left him with some loss of movement because of an accident.  This didn&#8217;t stop his wife from beating him when he tried to defend their children.  Children who were being abused.  Now A takes care of these kids, and they take care of him.  I adore his kids, and they are going to be so happy to see his new card!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my job. It&#8217;s stressful, maddening, unfair, but in the end I can come home on days like this and say it was completely worth it. Every second of it. I&#8217;m an Accredited Representative. To those who work in the immigration field, it means I can legally represent immigrants, and my credentials extend into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}