"On the day George W. Bush took his oath as the 43rd President of the United States, I began my life as an illegal alien. It was a conscious decision and it felt a lot like I was crossing a line, invisible to others, though unmistakable in the eyes of the law. But this is America, I thouhgt: life follows a different kind of logic here." Micky R. Rompa is a twenty-something Indonesian immigra…