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Recounting her story of finding opportunity and stability in the US, Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez examines the flaws in narratives that simplify and idealize the immigrant experience — and shares hard-earned wisdom on the best way to help those around us. "Our world is one that flourishes when different voices come together," she says.
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What’s missing from the American immigrant narrative?
honesty
It’s true. I don’t know of one person that’s against *legal* immigration. When one side continues to conflate legal with illegal immigration, nothing gets done.
Literally my response as well. Wanting to vet potential immigrants to make sure their views and goals are compatible with the US is not only the law, it’s sensible.
“What’s missing from the American immigrant narrative”
American: Green cards
BINGO !
What is missing is the word “legal” as in legal immigration.
The US doesn’t need 900,000 low-skilled, Third World immigrants each year, even if they are legal.
@Will224000 And the whole “legal” and “anchor baby” thing is a deliberate attempt to dehumanize people. When my grandparents immigrated, they literally showed up unannounced on a ship full of other poor European people. They basically signed a form, pledged allegiance, and became Americans that day, no years of paperwork and lawyers. I can’t say for sure what they would have done today if faced with the modern tangle or red tape but I’m pretty sure they were desperate enough that they would have circumvented it. Anyway, I think the whole “my family came here legally so yours should too” misses the apples and oranges nature of the equation. Plus it conveniently overlooks the acts of mass murder and con artist type schemes committed by many of the first Europeans here when they took land that wasn’t theirs–in my book that actually was illegal immigration.
@Karl Harvy Marx Its almost as if laws change over time! If you enter any country and flagrantly break their laws you’re a criminal same with immigration. Just because laws were different back then doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be followed now.
@Karl Harvy Marx None of your arguments matter. Immigrants must be better because communism and Islam are not compatible.
@sonoki82 Maybe not 900k, but I’d assume they need some. Who else will be picking veggies for minimum wage? Not the educated, american kids. How many would be an acceptable number for you?
(Cue the “me me me me me” song)
Yo I don’t know why but I thought this was gonna be an Onion Speaks and I shall now watch this from the perspective that it is a parody.
*lady
Deportation
I dont know anything.
*But* Boycott China!!!
What a joke.
Replace the word “community” with “tribe”.
Oh look, more noise from TED.
ICE get on the ground!!!
TED: Stands for Globalist puppet. TED IS Not in anyway for American values of our constitution and for our freedoms. TED is the enemy of the people. Plain and simple.
What’s missing is the media refuses to use the word “illegal “ in conjunction with the word “migrant”
That’s cause you call them “aliens” now.
“I flew my younger brother to the US to live with me, so that he too, could pursue his educaion.” Can’t he complete his education in Mexico? I’m from a third world country and the message that I get is that I can’t pursue my dreams or be successful if I’m not in the US. The entire world can’t fit in the US, stop.