Thread: Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream

Aww, too bad, our dollar isn't good enough and they didn't get their amnesty so they are packing it in.




Sylwia Kapuscinski for The New York Times
Elisabeth Borges, left, her daughter, Marianna, husband, Jose Osvandir Borges, seated, and son, Thiago, right, with Jose Silva, a family friend.

By NINA BERNSTEIN and ELIZABETH DWOSKIN
Published: December 4, 2007
Like hundreds of thousands of middle-class Brazilians who moved to the United States over the last two decades, Jose Osvandir Borges and his wife, Elisabeth, came on tourist visas and stayed as illegal immigrants, putting down roots in ways they never expected.

Marianna Borges, 10, helping her mother, Elisabeth Borges, pack. They and Ms. Borges’s husband are returning to Brazil Tuesday.
After packing up their plasma-screen TV, scholastic trophies and other fruits of 12 prosperous years in the Ironbound in Newark, the couple and their American-born daughter, Marianna, 10, were scheduled to fly back to Brazil for good this morning. They expect their son, Thiago, 21, to follow in a year or two, despite his reluctance to leave the only land that feels like home.

“You can’t spend your entire life waiting to be legal,â€

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