How are you Undocumented if you are so good looking?

(insert picture of Edward Cullen, Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman or whoever else you think is good looking)

If good looks made me a citizen then I would be able to sponsor twenty people and they would be granted automatic citizenship(Just Kidding). But things don't really work that way.

We flew from Argentina under tourists visas when it was rather simple to get them, a couple of years later to process became more complicated and many people were denied. Also a couple of years later the famous Argentinazo happened.

So we were granted a three-month tourist visa for us to "visit" California. Needless to say we overstayed them and we've been living here ever since.

A couple of days before our visas expired, our youth pastor from back then took my older sister, brother and I to Disneyland. While we were having lunch he asked my sister whether we could travel and how he would love to show us Mexico. My brother and sister exchanged an awkward glance and then my sister told our pastor that our visas would expire soon.

He understood. The friendly mood that we were in didn't change. This was something normal for him, and would soon be for us all, and we just kept on talking about other things. Of course, when I say we I mean them because, in my quiet youth, I would just let them speak and I would just listen.

Since then I wondered about what our status meant, and what I should be calling myself. I would deconstruct the meaning of specific words I heard on tv or being talked about. Once I asked my brother.

"What are we?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, we're not illegal immigrants because we didn't immigrate here illegally. So what are we?"

"We're undocumented."

"Oh."

I think I was around 11 or 12 at that time. I continued my day like normal, with one question answered, but with many new ones to still ponder.