Category: Immigration
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Memories Unearthed by a Coffee Sack
When exploring Northern Virginia on a long weekend recently, we visited a small coffee shop in Manassas. As we settled in, my husband noticed a basket of Colombian coffee sacks for sale. Rafael is from Mexico, not Colombia, but he recognized those 70kg burlap sacks the moment he saw them.
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A Word on the Crippling of America’s Immigration System
Update: I wrote this post many months ago, before COVID 19, and long before the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests and attention to systemic racism. Since then, there have been no less than 48 changes to the immigration system. I never published this post because there was a pandemic, I had a baby,…
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Building Solutions in a Divided America
We’ve all heard it – the frustrated republican mumbling something about all these entitled leftist snowflakes thinking they deserve to be handed world peace on a silver platter. The infuriated democrat railing against all the morons who don’t have the intelligence to care about science. God knows we see it on social media. To use…
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A Letter to my Legislators (and anyone who cares) on Demanding the U.S. Maintain its Refugee Resettlement Program
Recent Reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering a virtual shutdown of refugee admissions next year — cutting the number to zero or nearly zero. But, the refugee determination does not need to be made until next month, meaning there is time to insist that this life-saving program is not put to an end.…
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Cancun from a Hotel Bed
Hi friends, I haven’t seen you in a while. I spent most of February being super stressed out about our first family vacation to Mexico, and most of March recovering from said vacation. We went to Cancun since there are government warnings not to go to my husband’s home town and yada yada. The flight…
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I Married an Undocumented Immigrant: Executive Action
Last night, the president announced that he was taking executive action to shield some 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation for the next 3 years. He did not offer a path to citizenship for any segment of the population, but predictably, cries of amnesty rang out across the internet. But a midst the cries of…
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God Is Love (Not a Democrat, and Not a Republican)
Midterm elections are swiftly approaching, and as usual, I am pretty clueless… in general, yes, but I meant about who should get my vote. Here’s why: In scrolling through my Facebook feed I came across an image of a fetus placed next to an image of a Latino teenager in a sombrero with a rifle…
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I Married an Undocumented Immigrant – Update
A little story about my husband receiving legal status in the USA.
Mercy in the Madness 