IMMIGRATION
Exile Economics
The Psychological Toll of Mass Deportations and Its Hidden Costs
Heaven and Hell
From the perspective of an immigrant, life in America is many things. It’s the beauty of heart-stopping landscapes spread across the terrain of my memories — juxtaposed against heart-rending scenes of drug addicts stumbling across battered city sidewalks like zombies.
It’s heartache and Cohen’s Hallelujah wrapped up into a set of contradictions that often take my breath away. Heaven and hell and everything in between can be found in America, all you need do is look.
What brings us together today is this contradiction. The amazing good that threads through our American lives, colliding with actual hooded Nazis waving swastikas as they march down a street near you. Sometimes the dissonance is hard to get my mind around. But this is America.
Immigrant Perspectives
Wrapped up in all the stories is one that we’ve been hearing more and more in the news: that of illegal immigrants.
The news today used a literary device called a synecdoche (pronounced sin-ek-duh-kee) to give a snapshot of the predicaments of a mixed family of both undocumented and legal immigrants and how they…
