#immigration
Immigration. While I definitely believe that people should have the right to relocate to different countries if they need/wish to, I also often find myself wondering if it’s worth it in the long run.
Is it really worth it to be separated from family, friends and relatives?
Is it worth the language barrier and the feeling of being half in one world and half in the other trying to balance…
Look at this picture. Save it. Burn it into your brain and never fucking forget it.
Kansas elementary school student Fareed Jamal drew it for his dad, Dr. Syed Jamal, who is in jail and facing deportation to Bangladesh. His family watched ICE drag him away on his front lawn as he was taking his little girl to school in Lawrence. They wouldn’t let his wife and kids hug him goodbye.
Dr. Jamal has worked in the US for 30 years as a molecular biologist and has done research with the University of Kansas, Children’s Mercy, and Rockhurst University. He volunteers at his children’s schools. He is a leader within his faith community. He leaves behind his wife and three children. They are “devastated and fearful.” They have no other source of income.
We should remember President Donald J. Trumppromised us this. And our entire Kansas Congressional delegation ignored his racist, hate-filled rhetoric towards immigrants of color and gave him their full support to win the Presidency. All so they could get tax cuts for their campaign donors.
Senator Jerry Moran,Senator Pat Roberts,Congressman Kevin Yoder,Lynn Jenkins,Congressman Roger Marshall, M.D.,Congressman Ron Estes, and everyone else who supported Donald Trump’s candidacy: history will remember you for your complicity. It will remember all of us for failing to stop this racist assault on immigrant families.
There’s still a shred of hope for Dr. Jamal. The least you can do is share this petition:https://www.change.org/p/ice-help-to-stop-the-deportation-of-syed-jamal
And we still have a DACA fight to win. There are hundreds of thousands of people left to protect. Keep fighting.
I’ll leave you with what Dr. Jamal’s son wrote in a plea for support from Kansans:
“My name is Taseen Jamal, and my father has recently been arrested, taken to the Morgan County, MO, jail, and is being considered for deportation. My little brother cries every night, my sister can’t focus in school, and I cannot sleep at night. My mother is in trauma, and because she is a live organ donor, she only has one kidney, so the stress is very dangerous. She could die if he is deported. If my father is deported, my siblings and I may never get to see him again. He is an older man, and due to the conditions of his home country, he might not be able to survive.
My father called us, and he was crying like a little child because he was thinking about what would happen to us if he got deported. If he gets sent back to Bangladesh, his home country, he will be in grave danger, and people of his kind are persecuted there. My dad could likely would face persecution or even death at the hands of radical Islamist extremist gangs back in Bangladesh due to his liberal and secular writings and postings on social media platforms and publications. We are the children of Syed Ahmed Jamal, and we are requesting on behalf of our family for your kind help to get back our father. A home is not a home without a father.”
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Friendly reminder if you aren’t for open borders you aren’t libertarian.
Friendly reminder illegal immigration is a victimless crime.
Friendly reminder immigration policy is not afforded to the federal government by the Constitution and obstructing immigration was a grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence as justification for violent revolution.
“The federal government has no constitutional authority to deport people or prohibit their entry unless the United States is at war with their country. Foreigners in the United States are entitled to trial by jury and all other aspects of due process of law. Non-citizens are entitled to all of the rights in the Constitution not explicitly reserved to citizens. Security and safety arguments don’t justify laws restricting immigration. State and local governments have not only the right, but the duty, to resist and refuse cooperation with federal enforcement of unconstitutional immigration laws.
What kind of far-left anti-American open borders extremist would assert such positions? James Madison.” — Andy Craig
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202
I was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México. In 2000, my parents decided to bring my 3 brothers, little sister, and I to the United States. We were undocumented for 7 years and thanks to my dad status, Legal Permanent Resident, he became a US citizen in 2007 and was able to petition my family. I recently became a US citizen and this year will be my first year VOTING. I will use my vote to create change. Our immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. We need an IMMIGRATION REFORM! We need to #StopSeperatingFamilies!
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From Kathy Parrent, Silver Spring, Maryland:
Mom = English & Irish, French Canadian from Montreal.
Dad = Sharecroppers in the south. Way back – persecuted French Huguenots.
Both sides moved to Detroit and worked in the factories during WWII.
My people worked hard, owned their own home and sent my sister and I to college!
I Am the American Way!
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Nancy Vitale, I’m a daughter of Sicilian immigrants (Nonna came over on an army boat. It’s true!)
I am the American Way!
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Russia + Lithuania + Scotland + Poland + France + Germany + Austria + Mongolia = Tandy Family
We are the American Way!
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I am 1st generation Nicaraguan-American and 5th generation German-American. My mother went on a 4 month journey to the United States in search of her mother, my Abuela. In April of 2000 my mother finally reached the United States. She met my father a 4th generation German-American. Together they began building a life for my brothers and I. In June of 2014 my mom became an American citizen. She now has a Bachelor’s degree, is a paralegal, and going back to law school. She has inspired me to fight for the many undocumented immigrants without a voice. I am the American Way.
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My mom is from Nicaragua. She is an ex-undocumented and became an American citizen (on paper in 2014). My dad’s family came from Sweeden and Germany. I am a mix of them both. I Am The American Way.
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I am 1st generation Mexican- American. My Dad came here for a better more prosperous future for his family. The Amnesty of 1986 allowed him to pave his way to an American Citizenship. Now both of my parents are citizens. My parents came for my brother and I. They came for their future, my future.
I AM THE AMERICAN WAY
“Superman is an Immigrant” encourages us all to examine our immigrant histories, and inspires us to draw parallels with the Superman story.
We’re relaunching this campaign in anticipation of the new Dawn of Justicefilm.Share your story of coming to America today!
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“Immigrants have been good to America; they’ve created some of your most American things. "God Bless America”: written by a Siberian. Levi’s Jeans: a Bavarian. The White House: designed by an Irishman. Superman: a Kryptonian, who was co-created by a Canadian.“
John Oliver, himself an immigrant, agrees that immigration reform is important and it needs to happen now. Watch the rest of his segment on immigration here.
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Russian-born Armenian American photographer Diàna Markosian fled Moscow in 1996 with her mother and brother, leaving her father behind. Fifteen years later she connected with him for the first time since they had left. In Mornings (With You), she chronicles a series of breakfasts with him, finding both intimacy and discomfort in an unfamiliar home.
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