Tag: Immigration
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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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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 