Don’t let your scars end your story

This blog post has been authored by Stand Out Online Member Opal Meeks, Pivot Beauty Wins

“But you’re the only parent I have left mommy,” my daughter cried. “Why do I have to move to Texas to be adopted by uncle Prince and Aunty Stacy?” My heart broke. I wanted to be strong for both of us but tears trickled down my face as I tried to find my voice. We’ve lived in this shelter for five long years Jada. The only thing I want more than anything else is for you to have a better future than this one.”

As we continued to converse in tears, I remembered the gloomy Monday afternoon when I told her that her father had been shot and killed. We’d made a promise that we would keep on going and that we’d never give up.

That night; sadness, guilt and disappointment were relentless. I cried so hard I had to squeeze my pillow tightly over my mouth to keep the sound from escaping. I didn’t know what else to do. I’d been trying my hardest but kept on hitting roadblocks, over and over and over again. After five years of living in a shelter for the homeless, I was still unable to move out on my own and provide the basic necessities for both of us. Tears soaked my pillow as I wondered why my life had taken such and awful turn for the worst. Was I just born to suffer and die? Was there even a purpose for my life? The questions were endless. Since then, the thought of purpose has never left my mind. This is the main reason I’ve decided to focus on making the world a better home than the one I’ve experienced.

How it all began

I entered the U.S from Jamaica on a visiting visa in May of 2010. Gang violence was at it’s peak back home. I’d never lost so many friends in all the years I’d lived in my community.

I was even more shaken when my child’s father got involved. In inner city communities like these, one becomes a target simply by affiliation.

It’s needless to say we had major disagreements. I couldn’t understand why he would put our lives in so much danger and he couldn’t understand why I had a problem with him protecting his life. It’d been just two years since his younger sibling was shot 8 times and killed, just for being in a store close by the house at the wrong time.

This was a nationwide problem. According to reports from a local newspaper in 2009, the highest murder rate had been recorded. Roughly 1680 people had been murdered at that time. And In the year before this one, the police force reported that 52% of murders were caused by gang warfare and reprisals. Approximately 1292 people had been killed by the gun.

Gang culture was always a part of my community, so these statistics were my personal reality. I’d witnessed my first homicide at age five but I never imagined it would one day be in my own backyard.

Following the reprisal death of my daughter’s older uncle, I decided it was best for us to flee the environment all together. I was the one who’d identified his body at the back of a house a few blocks from where we’d lived. The same night, another body laid lifeless just about 4 houses from where we’d found him. I felt like I was in the midst of a battlefield. Life had completely lost its value.

I prayed for protection day and night to make it out alive. I was afraid that my daughter and I would be next. This was the reason, after we left for America, we never returned home. We later became, what we now know as undocumented immigrants.

A fresh start 

Upon arrival, I felt I’d been given a second chance at life. I was welcomed by my daughter’s aunt and was grateful. I’d heard a lot about the opportunities in America and couldn’t wait to just start over.

I was the first of 9 siblings to graduate high school and even did a year of college. I wanted to use this opportunity to finish my studies. My aim was to create a decent life for my daughter and me. We’d both been through a lot but I was still in my 20’s. I was determined to turn life around for the both of us.

I’d applied to Queens Community College and was accepted but couldn’t attend because of financial difficulties. While searching for assistance, I found that there were an estimated 65,000 undocumented students who resided here. But these students were not legally eligible to receive any federal student financial aid. This included, loans, grants and work study money.

I was disappointed but going back home wasn’t an option for me. As such, I began to look for work. I found both cleaning and restaurant jobs and began to make an income. It wasn’t much but I’d experienced so many negatives back home, I wanted to be on the right page in this new environment, so I began paying taxes. After reading in the Fiscal Times that undocumented immigrants contributed $11.8 billion dollars in taxes; I figured I was doing the right thing. But eventually, the physical strain became too much for me to handle. As a result, I ended up in physical therapy with chronic back pain.

I’d paid for a few classes in between jobs and got both Medical billing and GED certificates to see if I could find more manageable forms of employment. However, I was still unable to advance with these credentials. I later discovered in the Washington Post, that undocumented immigrants, because of their legal status, were most times clustered in low level occupations.This was despite the fact that some had higher education levels that enabled them to work in an office or technical job.

I decided to seek legal advice. There had to be a way to improve my life. This could not have been it for me. I sought and found free legal clinics to help with my concerns but got the same advice from each one. The only way I could move forward was through marriage to a U.S citizen. I didn’t qualify for anything else.

I wasn’t ready for another relationship. I’d just been through hell and back, but determined to move ahead I decided to do what needed to be done. I really wanted to get my life together.

The break down 

Unfortunately, I didn’t find love. Instead, I ended up in very compromising and emotionally unhealthy unions; none of which were successful. Very few people had different experiences but majority of the others I’d met had stories similar to mine.

I quickly realized there was a hierarchy of status vs non-status which caused significant trust issues and other problems in these kinds of settings. Some even requested money for marriage but I honestly wasn’t making enough to oblige. My determination crept sheepishly into desperation. I felt like I had lost my dignity and self-worth.

My mental health began to deteriorate in 2013 and I was diagnosed with ADHD. In addition, I suffered a number of panic attacks and psychological distress on every level. In the summer of 2014, I had a psychotic episode and became very dysfunctional. I was evicted from my apartment and was rescued by the New York City shelter system for the homeless. In 2015, I was directed to a family shelter in Brooklyn and this is where my daughter and I now live.

I took this opportunity to learn as much as I could about issues surrounding mental health and ways in which I could restore some kind of normalcy.

My daughter and I were also able to build a really strong bond but we became even closer after the news about her father’s death in 2017. He had been incarcerated for 7 years back in our home country but I’d allowed them to maintain contact because I knew how much they’d loved each other. However, shortly after he was released, he returned to our old community and was shot and killed. My daughter was devastated. She frequently broke down in school afterward but we were able to slowly work our way through it.

In just the same way education was the center of my childhood, I encouraged her to make it the center of hers. She was enrolled in a Public magnet school and loved it dearly. She’d become a bit of an introvert but told me she’d never felt more connected to people as she’d felt with the teachers and students at MELS.

On the other hand, as I watched her turn 15 in 2020, I found myself thinking about her future as an undocumented college student. I sunk deeper in thought as I wondered what her life might be like as an undocumented adult…

Flashing memories of my own experiences began to surface and I was shaken with fear. I felt like I needed to protect her hopes and dreams. I’d kept a clean record. I’d volunteered at the Brooklyn Public Library. I’d made over $1000 dollars toward NAMI’S walkathon for mental health while I was a volunteer there. I’d paid taxes. I listened to positive affirmations. I’d tried meditation and worked harder than I’d ever done to find my way to a decent life but nothing changed. Our reality was still a struggle to survive in the shelter.

Following these thoughts, I went to her college councilor about my concerns. It turned out there were only limited financial assistance for undocumented students to attend community colleges and they weren’t guaranteed jobs. She’d already experienced more than 5 ACE related childhood adversities. Therefore, even though she tried her hardest, she hadn’t been making high A’s in class for the possibility of being considered for a grant or scholarship, to attend the colleges at which she’d wished to complete her studies. In addition, I was barely making enough for food, I knew I wouldn’t be able to pay for her college education.

I felt hopeless. Making this decision to have her adopted by her family members was the most painful decision I’d ever made but I didn’t feel like I had a choice.

There were no programs to assist undocumented families to transition from the shelter system into independent living. We were not eligible for any kind of food stamps, public assistance, or any kind of cash assistance, temporary or otherwise.  But I kept on going.

In an effort to survive better, I began making my own natural juices in the space I was provided. I placed them in 16 oz. plastic bottle containers and began walking from store to store to pitch for sales. My efforts were welcomed and I gained customers, but again, I was only making enough for food.

I wanted  to improve upon this effort so I registered the business and began to pay taxes from the little I was earning. I sought advice from nonprofit organizations in hopes of expanding  but was told there was no financial assistance available to undocumented immigrants for investment purposes.

 The search for deeper meaning

It felt like there was no end to this fight to survive. My mind and body folded in pain. Time and again the question of purpose came to the surface of my mind but in this moment, I really began to search for a deeper meaning to life. I’d seen so many people here like my daughter and I who just wanted a decent life. I’d seen so many back home whose dreams had been prematurely swallowed by the grave. Could this have been all there was for people like us?

I later discovered how in 2016 alone, 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced by conflict, violence and human rights violations around the world and wondered what their lives were like. I wanted to do something to help. This was when I decided to delve into more research and discovered that my interest fell under the category of Global and international relations; so I used this channel to understand my circumstances better.

With the new information I’d found from my research, I realized that the world was the richest it’d ever been…

Subsequently, I began to wonder how people like me could become a part of this booming 21st century development.

Global innovations around the world had not only redefined the way people communicate but the way we trade, do business and interact with each other. As a result, there were massive financial returns. It seemed there was great potential for all of us. Why then was it so difficult for people like me to thrive?

As I continued to absorb more of the information, recurring problems continued to surface. These problems were primarily concerned with wealth creation, wealth possession and the way it should be redistributed.

I noticed major wealth disparities that needed to be addressed, but there was one thing in particular that really captured my attention. This was the issue of international tax avoidance and how it affected the rest of the global community. The tax justice network estimated that tax avoidance was costing the world’s government roughly U.S $700 billion dollars per year. Major multinational companies placed earnings in offshore tax havens to avoid the required taxation.

I suddenly found myself questioning everything I’d learned about tax contributions and its benefits…I then shrugged at the complex inner workings of human instincts and wondered how we could place a bit more balance toward the center of our growth.

While searching for answers, I began to take a keener look at the negative ways in which this kind of tax avoidance affected developing countries…Could Global tax reform be the solution to the issues surrounding unauthorized immigration around the world?

A global crisis in the midst of progress.

This thought lead to even more helpful discoveries but then, in the midst of my research, the world took a drastic turn none of us could have possibly predicted.

Before we could see it, nations had been placed under siege by the pandemic.

For this reason, to evaluate the impact global tax  reform would have on developing countries it became necessary to fully examine our global state.

This is when I discovered that we’re actually experiencing two of the most pivotal occurrences of the 21st century and they’re  both been happening simultaneously.

Ray Kurzweil revealed, that it’s not only the driver of the 4th industrial revolution; artificial intelligence has already began to break new grounds and is swiftly becoming the new normal. Computer scientists have used their understanding of the brain to build robots and other machines that both think like us, and are capable of performing human duties.

Both the U.S and China have been noted as two superpowers, currently leading the rest of the world (193 countries), into the use of this new form of technology.

Research also showed, according to the P.W.C, that with the initial rise of artificial intelligence, the world would be set to increase its wealth in terms of G.D.P to $16 trillion dollars by 2030.

But in the course of this economic high came the Covid-19 pandemic. Nations have been heavily impacted and are still contending with its effects.

Research by the World Economic Forum revealed, that quarantine efforts have caused the labor market to change at a faster pace than expected and this brought more people on the internet

But business analysts and other media personnel described the pandemic as a trigger of one of the largest recessions since the Great Depression of 1929.

This is because it lead to a spiral of worldwide uncertainty as both developed and developing nations grappled with unfamiliar reforms for economic recovery.

In light of these changes, the questions running through my mind took on new form. Two of the most dominant ones became;

• “How can we properly arrange our domestic and global priorities toward a reform agenda that benefits all affected by the pandemic?”
• “And most importantly; how might we create a new effective approach to undocumented immigration in the post pandemic era?”

History revealed that the Great Depression of 1929 had devastating effects on both rich and poor countries in almost the same way we’ve been affected by this pandemic. The decline in the U.S economy along with the decline in international trade placed an anchor on our growth and slowed our collective progress.

However, economists also emphasized, that most importantly, it had been the internal weaknesses and strengths in each country that made conditions either better or worst during and after this period.

Flash forward to today things are a bit different.  With the development of technology and the rise of globalization, our weaknesses and strengths have become far more interwoven. This makes us more interdependent than ever before.

In essence, this means each country’s imprints, both good and bad, in the global economy now has an even more rippling effect.

Therefore, as developed nations tackling this very critical phase of reform and recovery, I realized it was imperative to pay close attention, not only to our global strengths but also to our most persistent weaknesses, some of which have never been thoroughly examined or we’ve simply failed to properly address.

This seemed to be one of the most effective ways to re-emerge stronger, wiser and more competent, as we continued to make the gradual transition toward the 4th industrial revolution, without a tug of war effect on our progress.

With much more examination and analysis, I just couldn’t shake the fact that an existing weakness that roots back to the global economy, as mentioned above, is the issue of unauthorized immigration.

Unauthorized  Immigration 

According to the website pewresearch.org, Europe and the United States are major destinations for the world’s immigrants. Because of this, in both places, there are usually ongoing debates about immigration policies and the long-standing challenge of what to do with the world’s unauthorized immigrants.

The website heritage.org tells us, that there are over 10 million unauthorized immigrants here in the United States and this number had continued to increase by 700,000 each year.

Some of the concerns publicly discussed with regards to this issue included; the risk of job security for citizens and the draining of the treasury that provides free lunch and education for school age children.

Some argued that unauthorized immigrants were  social and economic burdens to law-abiding tax paying Americans.

Others proposed the verification of citizenship for any would be employees and criminal penalties for employers, who employed these immigrants repeatedly.

Among solutions to stem the problem; different states proposed federal statutes to completely forbid the employment of illegal immigrants. In Arizona, the law known as the SB1070 has been struck down by both the district and appeals court as the bill made it a state crime to be in the country without authorization.

Arguments that supported the bill claimed the problem with illegal immigration had gone on for too long. They stated that the system had been broken and the federal government needed to enact and enforce strict immigration laws in order to protect the citizens of the country.

In addition, the article on roe.house.gov said, illegal immigration had become a serious threat to the national security of this nation.

And at worst, frustrated members of society called them criminals, rapists, drug dealers, murderers and gang members.

Other measures taken to stem the problem included mass deportation, attempts to build a wall and deprivation of legal opportunities.

However, these measures only left many unauthorized immigrants feeling disconnected, lost and drained while the issues remained the same. The size of this population still ranged between 10.3 and 10.7 million in 2017.

Standard of living for the undocumented 

The website digitalcommons.com tells us, that living standards for these immigrants are often deplorable. They compete with what is described as the neediest of the society for already scarce, low income housing and other limited community service.

This is because many live in the trenches of the American ladder and are paid very low wages. They get little job security, a high employee turnover rate when illegally employed and are not usually unionized. This means they do not have a voice.

They are not eligible for food stamps, public assistance or cash assistance. Students are not allowed to participate in regular youth employment programs and are provided very limited funding for community colleges only. Today, families aren’t eligible for any Federal Covid 19 relief stipend even if they pay taxes, though according to The World Economic Forum; majority of our low income families are some of the worst affected by the pandemic.

It’s clear from the challenges listed, that these conditions are ones that breeds civil hostility, discrimination and an overall unhealthy environment for the undocumented population.

In Europe, the unauthorized immigrant population is less than half the number in the U.S according to research from the pew research center in 2017. These reports explained that the differences in population sizes reflects the broader immigration trends.

Germany, the U.K, Italy and France accounts for 70% of the unauthorized immigrants in Europe and roughly 20% to 24% of them are asylum seekers.

In 2017, more than half of Europe’s unauthorized immigrant population (56%), arrived in the past five years. This is in contrast to the 27% that arrived 10 years ago.

One controversial immigration law in Europe states, that children born to unauthorized immigrants there, are often considered unauthorized themselves. This is because most of Europe do not have birthright citizenship, though it’s also stated that these children are often times protected from deportation in many European countries.

It was important to highlight these challenges for them to be assessed. But this revelation made it even more important to find a root cause of this weakness, to see how best we could remove this major barrier impeding our collective progress, especially in the face of the current pandemic.

With a clear understanding of this problem, we’d be better able to create effective reforms that aligns both our domestic and global priorities in a way that allowed more people to participate in the next phase of our development.

Following this thought, I was forced to take a closer look at the global economy.

A closer look at the global economy 

As mentioned previously, before the recent Covid 19 and current Omicron outbreak, the world had been declared the richest it’d ever been.

This is be because many large multinational corporations made over 100 billion dollars annually, as more than half of the world’s population gained access to the internet.

Today, there are over 80,000 multinational companies with a control of over 800,000 subsidiaries.

However, while this kind of expansion introduced great prospects for global development; the global community has also seen persistent challenges.

For many multinational companies, undertaking the responsibility of steering the world’s economy while competing to maintain an edge in the world’s market has proven to be tough job, because It comes with immense difficulties.

As a direct consequence of this, there have not only been mishandling and deficiency issues among many of these organizations; we’ve also seen, as highlighted above, the unhealthy rise of international tax avoidance.

Again, based on reports from the Tax Justice Network, tax avoidance has been costing the world’s government roughly U.S $700 billion dollars annually. And this is primarily due to the fact that multinational companies have been placing earnings in off shore tax havens to avoid the required taxation.

However, there are even more reports prior to this one that tell us, 30 of 287 companies who make the most money around the world, collectively booked a maximum of $1.2 trillion dollars offshore simply for tax avoidance reasons.

Additionally, according to the website ctj.org; fifty five Fortune 500 companies willing to report tax handling, disclosed that had they not officially placed profits offshore, they would have collectively been required to pay U.S $147.5 billion dollars in Federal taxes.

These are just a few examples that highlights the challenges of the global community.

Some of these offshore taxes, according to a U.S senate investigation of 27 large multinational corporations, are invested in U.S banks, bonds and other assets

The impact of international tax avoidance  on developing countries 

The problem is; while international tax avoidance may have seemed a viable solution for these organizations to position themselves against things like; late payments, high fines, penalty fees, timely inventory restocking and other difficulties as competitors within the global market. It has also had very damaging effects on both poor and developing countries.

As a matter of fact, this kind of effort has matured into more of a weakness than strength in many respects.  For example, U. S $700 billion dollars, when not reinvested into the economy, actually causes an obstruction in the developmental progress of both underserved and underdeveloped nations.

This in turn, does not only result in a leakage of talent in these countries. It also accounts for consequences like the alarming rise in unauthorized immigration here in the U.S and other parts of the world.

However, to make a fair and logical assessment of the real impact international tax avoidance really had on unauthorized immigration, it became important to take a brief look at the global population.

The Global Population 

There are roughly 7.7 billion human beings on the planet. However, 84% of the world’s population are from developing countries.

People in these parts  of the world are often facing a different set of challenges than we do in first world nations.

For example, some of the primary questions of the day for many are things like; “ How do I get water for me and my family to survive?”

This is because they usually have significantly less resources.

Despite the fact that developing countries host 86% of the world’s refugees, many contend with challenges like food shortages, water leakages, a lack of proper medical care and power inefficiencies.

Additionally, as we prepare to step fully into the 4th industrial era of our development, there are still roughly 1.4 billion people without electricity in these parts of the world. They also must contend with aging infrastructure and ecological problems such as climate change. This is because of the use of airplanes, ships, and vehicles that transport goods over international borders.

These are just some of the reasons research shows, that many skilled and unskilled immigrants migrate to more developed nations.

Statistics reveal that the primary challenges they face include; a lack of job opportunities, a lack of professional development, civil unrest and better economic opportunities.

On the other hand; as we assess these conditions in developing countries, it’s important to highlight reports showing that there have been investments in human capital to the tune of 120 billion dollars annually.

Human capital is the totality of investments made in humans, so those humans might be better able to innovate or participate in the creation cycle of a nation or country. It generally covers things like; education, skills, talents, and other experiences that optimizes an individual’s ability, to become more productive.

This investment has resulted in an increase in the amount of people that have been taken out of poverty over the last 40 to 50 years. Reports are that a definitive 600,000,000 people have emerged from poverty, specifically within the last 30 years.

This is a solid indication that investments of this nature does make a difference.

However, what it also shows is that U.S $700 billion dollars annually, when it is placed back in the economy could make an even greater impact in a shorter period of time for more people; especially because of the speed at which we are developing as a species. It could be used to build infrastructure that aligns more toward the direction of our modern development.

With this kind of  mobilization, stability and potential for added opportunities in developing nations; citizens there would feel less inclined to engage in mass migration to search for opportunities and conditions they would be able to find in their own countries.

This would in turn, decrease or prevent a reoccurrence of the spike in unauthorized immigration we’ve seen in the past both here and around the world.

Subsequently, it would also help to remove the need for many of the penalties these immigrants face for seeking better opportunities; and the strain on our leaders to find appropriate legislation.

Through these lenses, global tax reform could definitely become a very constructive tool that helps to stem the problem of unauthorized immigration worldwide.

A product of this reform could even be developed into a separate institution, to manage the redistribution process perhaps like the Federal reserve, so it doesn’t become politicized, .

Making this institution independent would ensure that activities are done in the best interest of all countries, with checks and balances that minimizes corruption. Leaders could then build a more structured form of migrant exchange without the need for excessive and unhealthy conflict.

According to Maslow’s pyramid of needs, we all start off with the basic psychological needs for bodily security and protection from attack. However, as we continue to evolve, we need belonging, happiness and love. Additionally, we develop the urge for self-actualization, which is most important; because it provides us the opportunity to live our full potential and to become who we really are.

The 2015 EU transparency report for banks across Europe revealed, that accountability for tax avoidance would not be harmful to multinational companies. Therefore, Global Tax reform remains one of the most solid ways of addressing and tackling the root cause of unauthorized immigration for better results as we continue move toward the radical future of artificial intelligence.

How can I help?

As I began to put the pieces together through my own filters, I realized how much I wanted to be a part of the solution so I proceeded to send this information to Senator King.

My aim in doing so was to bring divergent groups with a wide range of financial and humanitarian interests together in civil harmony, so we could find workable solutions for the development and benefit of all.

Today , even though I don’t qualify for this kind of assistance, I am a volunteer at habitat for humanity. They are an organization that tackles the affordable housing crisis in America and around world, one home at a time. They impact change by giving a hand to those who need it through fundraisers and sweat equity. They also advocate to change policies and systems that can eliminate barriers to adequate and affordable housing.

According to the website meaningofhome.ca;

“ Home means an enjoyable, happy place where you can live, laugh and learn. It’s somewhere where you are loved, respected and cared for.”

An article called Making a house a home from makinglemonade.com; also added, that it’s not the expensive objects in a house that makes it a home. It’s really whose inside and what we do within the walls of our habitat.

This is really how I think about the world. it’s our individual ideologies, attitudes, behaviors and interactions that shape the way we all experience the home we share as a collective on planet earth.

It’s why I’ve decided to become the change I want to see in the world. My deepest desire has always been to be a contributor to the future instead of a mere victim.

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According to Neuroscientist Dr. D Maclean, we all have three different but active parts of the brain that impacts the way we experience the world in every given moment.

After taking a mental screenshot of our environmental, societal, cultural and economic influences on these core parts of the brain, I didn’t only see similar patterns in the way we all functioned but understood the reason we interact and experience the world and relationships in the way we do.

It’s how I became aware of the fact that there are actually 7 tangible (real world) factors that influences either success or failure  in all aspects of daily our lives.

The details uncovered,  replaced everything I grew up learning and understanding to be the basis of a successfullife.

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As Pointed out above, not only did I make poor relationship choices, I failed over a dozen times trying to climb the ladder of success; but kept on getting caught in a never ending loop of missing the steps.

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For this reason, I’ve  made it my business to do so in my own unique way.

Transcendence

Hi my name is Opal Cynthia Meeks but I’ve never really embraced my middle name, in just the same way I’ve never really embraced a lot of other things about myself; like my truth, my value and self-worth. For a very long time I just wished everything about me was different. I didn’t even feel like I belonged here on planet earth.

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