@kurtsh@mastodon.socialRemember that #Trump has referred to #immigrants as “animals” and stated that they aren’t even human beings. “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion.”
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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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@Speckdaene@nrw.social#idw #Immigrants Share Democratic Basic Values
International study: #Migrants identify with #democracy to a similarl…
