Many of us have never given a second thought to the security of our position as a person living in the United States.
But, as the Trump administration continues to roll out plans for their immigration agenda, we can see that people have given a lot of thought to the positions of the immigrants residing in the United States.
The most troubling concern is the continuous portrayal of immigrants as people who are dangerous, threatening and undeserving of being a resident in this country.
It is already extremely difficult to immigrate to the United States (or any other place for that matter), but inaccurate media depictions and the misuse of charged language encourages closed-mindedness to people who may need kindness the most, which is a distressing thought.
Furthermore, immigration is not a zero-sum game. When your neighbor flourishes, you also flourish, and when your community grows, so do you.
You can take up the issue of wealth inequality with the 1 percent, not the immigrant family down the road.
President Trump is still calling for tighter border control along the U.S.-Mexican border and proposed hiring 10,000 more ICE officials, increasing interior enforcements and streamlining the eviction process.
He constructs the narrative that immigrants are a strain on the U.S. taxpayer, overlooking the fact that not only do immigrants also pay taxes, but that building a wall would be a much bigger strain on the U.S. taxpayer.
Increasing border security is a counter-effective way to “solve” the immigration problem, but the fact that we label immigrants as a problem is not the right way to start the conversation.
