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As soon as we walked into her office, we could smell her high priced perfume, with the tinted red lipstick and the clicking of her heels as she was walking over to hand my mom an application. From the strong glare of her gold watch, we sat there still as glaciers, while this woman integrated my mom with questions like "Do you speak and write English? Are you married, do you have children, do you have a vehicle?" As my mom nodded with a lowered head, "Yes." As soon as the appointment was over, I let out a big sigh of relief, and I knew that we had passed the test. Then she asked, "Do you have any questions?" That felt like my checkpoint to ask what's been bothering me so much. "Why are we poor?" I asked. She responded, "Because you're Mexican, poor, and can't speak English."
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