IMMIGRATION
Hate Rhetoric Directed at Immigrants Is an Affront to Humanity
Our society has to normalize treating all the cultures and people of the world with a basic level of respect
The World Relief Organization designated my wife’s school district as relocation point for refugee families. A few years ago, she began working with a young boy who had just come from a war torn region. The poor child couldn’t speak English, and he had such separation anxiety that my wife had to reassure him by pointing out the time on the clock when his mother would return.
She conveyed the information with hand gestures. “Only three more hours to go. Only two more hours. Only one…”
After working with him for a few days, my wife had to miss school because of an appointment. The poor boy was so distraught at her absence, that he spent the day wandering the halls screaming, “My name is Azucena!”
Those were the only words in English he knew. He couldn’t identify her name in that garble of syllables. So, in his cries of desperation he used them all.
The unreported reality of the United States is that trauma-affected immigrant children are not provided the resources they need. The media doesn’t share the stories of…
