An Illegal Alien Shares His Life of Struggles, Success, and Hopes

An Illegal Alien Shares His Life of Struggles, Success, and Hopes

Author tells his true story of being an illegal alien on US soil in his new book

Bloomington, IN (Vocus) August 12, 2010

He is a table tennis player representing his school from Ecuador at the US Open in Miami in 1986. After the tournament, with his brother Jaime and his teammate Douglas, he gets on a New York City-bound Greyhound bus. He is captivated by the grandeur of the city and, after his return to Ecuador, dreams of going back someday. Three months later, he returns to the United States. This time, he overstays his visa and becomes an illegal alien. In his newly released book, author Fernando Briceño shares his Memoirs of an Illegal Alien and hopes that everyone will read his personal story with an open mind and heart. The author has struggled on account of things varied in nature—and has overcome most of them. He also gets to savor some triumphs. He gets married in 1997 and obtains a work permit. In 1999, he gets a DEA-sensitive clearance, and he starts to work in the wiretap department. His marriage ends up in a divorce before getting a green card, and he is in limbo. He continues to work wiretaps for the DEA, Customs, IRS, ICE, ATF, and others. His dedication, passion, and work quality, despite the fact that he is a high school dropout, catapult him to the top of his game, and he is offered to work directly for the DEA by starting his own company. He jumps at the chance, and with great success, he manages to work for the government in some of the most exciting drug-smuggling cases in the United States. Almost twenty-four years after his arrival to this country, he is in need of a lung transplant. He still is an illegal alien and hopes that someday, he will get his green card and maybe die a United States citizen in the country that he loves. His father, an American citizen, filed a petition on his behalf in 2004, and the wait to legalize his status goes on. “…writing this book, my legal status and with my health conditions, I don’t know what the future will bring. There is good and evil in this world, and I am sure there is going to be some people that would like to hear my story and like it; some others would hate it. That is a risk I am willing to take with the hope of opening some eyes and ears and especially some hearts to the troubling situation that undocumented workers go through in this country. A country built by immigrants and enriched by the hard labor of slaves, a country that had been torn apart by war, a country with a lot of ingenuity to survive problems, a country of loving, caring, compassionate and hardworking people; to me the best country in the world. I hope one day I get to call it my own, the United States of America,” sincerely shares the author. For more information on this book, log on to Xlibris. com (http://www2.xlibris. com/bookstore/bookdisplay. aspx? bookid=80666). About the Author Fernando Briceño is a self-educated writer in the English language, who felt compelled to write his story, to be part of the voice of the millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows in the United States. He doesn’t claim to be a writer, but knows very well that every life has a story to tell and Memoirs of an Illegal Alien is the story of the last twenty-four years of his life. His beginnings are from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and he attended the schools Jose Domingo de Santistevan, San Jose de La Salle, and Vicente Leon before he dropped out of high school in pursuit of his American dream. Memoirs of an Illegal Alien * by Fernando Briceño An American Adventure Publication Date: July 8, 2010 Trade Paperback; $19.99; 349 pages; 978-1-4535-0952-4 Trade Hardback; $29.99; 349 pages; 978-1-4535-0953-1 eBook; $9.99; 978-1-4535-0954-8 Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. For more information on self-publishing (http://www2.xlibris. com/requestkit3/index. aspx? src=prps) or marketing (http://www2.xlibris. com/marketingservices/index. aspx? src=prms) with Xlibris, visit www. Xlibris. com. To receive a free publishing guide (http://www2.xlibris. com/requestkit3/index. aspx? src=prps), please call (888) 795-4274.He is a table tennis player representing his school from Ecuador at the US Open in Miami in 1986. After the tournament, with his brother Jaime and his teammate Douglas, he gets on a New York City-bound Greyhound bus. He is captivated by the grandeur of the city and, after his return to Ecuador, dreams of going back someday. Three months later, he returns to the United States. This time, he overstays his visa and becomes an illegal alien. In his newly released book, author Fernando Briceño shares his Memoirs of an Illegal Alien and hopes that everyone will read his personal story with an open mind and heart.

The author has struggled on account of things varied in nature—and has overcome most of them. He also gets to savor some triumphs. He gets married in 1997 and obtains a work permit. In 1999, he gets a DEA-sensitive clearance, and he starts to work in the wiretap department. His marriage ends up in a divorce before getting a green card, and he is in limbo. He continues to work wiretaps for the DEA, Customs, IRS, ICE, ATF, and others. His dedication, passion, and work quality, despite the fact that he is a high school dropout, catapult him to the top of his game, and he is offered to work directly for the DEA by starting his own company. He jumps at the chance, and with great success, he manages to work for the government in some of the most exciting drug-smuggling cases in the United States. Almost twenty-four years after his arrival to this country, he is in need of a lung transplant. He still is an illegal alien and hopes that someday, he will get his green card and maybe die a United States citizen in the country that he loves. His father, an American citizen, filed a petition on his behalf in 2004, and the wait to legalize his status goes on.

“…writing this book, my legal status and with my health conditions, I don’t know what the future will bring. There is good and evil in this world, and I am sure there is going to be some people that would like to hear my story and like it; some others would hate it. That is a risk I am willing to take with the hope of opening some eyes and ears and especially some hearts to the troubling situation that undocumented workers go through in this country. A country built by immigrants and enriched by the hard labor of slaves, a country that had been torn apart by war, a country with a lot of ingenuity to survive problems, a country of loving, caring, compassionate and hardworking people; to me the best country in the world. I hope one day I get to call it my own, the United States of America,” sincerely shares the author.

For more information on this book, log on to Xlibris. com (http://www2.xlibris. com/bookstore/bookdisplay. aspx? bookid=80666).

About the Author

Fernando Briceño is a self-educated writer in the English language, who felt compelled to write his story, to be part of the voice of the millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows in the United States. He doesn’t claim to be a writer, but knows very well that every life has a story to tell and Memoirs of an Illegal Alien is the story of the last twenty-four years of his life. His beginnings are from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and he attended the schools Jose Domingo de Santistevan, San Jose de La Salle, and Vicente Leon before he dropped out of high school in pursuit of his American dream.

Memoirs of an Illegal Alien * by Fernando Briceño

An American Adventure

Publication Date: July 8, 2010

Trade Paperback; $19.99; 349 pages; 978-1-4535-0952-4

Trade Hardback; $29.99; 349 pages; 978-1-4535-0953-1

EBook; $9.99; 978-1-4535-0954-8

Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879.

For more information on self-publishing (http://www2.xlibris. com/requestkit3/index. aspx? src=prps) or marketing (http://www2.xlibris. com/marketingservices/index. aspx? src=prms) with Xlibris, visit www. Xlibris. com. To receive a free publishing guide (http://www2.xlibris. com/requestkit3/index. aspx? src=prps), please call (888) 795-4274.

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