In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.
The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.