My Memory Lane To USA

I just told my American friends not to be surprised if they see me featured on Vox on Youtube in the near future, as another American deported by ICE.  This is a possible scenario for me but I hope the chance of this happening to me is zero.  If only ICE knocks on my door now and demands me to present proof of my legal stay in the USA, I have nothing to show. At this moment, I have no valid visa, I have no green card, I have no certificate of naturalization.  I only have a valid passport issued by my native country that I haven't used to travel out of the USA and that is blank. This passport only proves that I'm a citizen of my native country and it will be handy should I be deported by ICE.  I don't mind the deportation at all just I don't want to be in the detention center since I hear all this horrible stories about jails in USA. My initial visa stamp to enter the USA as a professional worker  was on this passport that expired a year ago and was taken away b

I had opted for a name change during my naturalization to become a U.S. citizen.  As a result, I had turned what used to be my nick name that my English teacher picked out for me when I was in 7th grade back home, into my legal name as an American.  It's because I have been using this "English" nick name during my college years here in the USA and for working with my American colleagues and employers that I just wanted to make it legal when it was such an easy opt-in on the  naturalization application form.    I don't know how other immigrants feel about adopting a new American name as a new citizen.  But in my situation, I was just feeling tired and sick of having to explain to new colleagues or new employers as to why I preferred to be called my English nick name and not the legal name on my social security card, green card, and transcripts.  I think I probably had explained this over a thousand times through out the years: It's because nobody whom I've