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Margaux's avatar

I sat with a mom yesterday of 3 kids (all US citizens) married to a man from El Salvador. He’s lived here 15-20 years and has been working toward citizenship legally. He has all the papers to prove it, but he is afraid of being taken off the street. He can’t leave the house to work or go to the grocery or to take his children to the doctor. He was afraid to go to the pool on the 4th with his kids. This is not America. We are better than this. We could give people a path to citizenship that is affordable and transparent, but instead we have chosen a police state. I hugged this mom as she cried. What this country is allowing right now is wrong. What happened to wanting to be a beacon of light? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

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Jackie's avatar

This is truly sickening. It makes me feel hopeless. What are we to do when our reps don’t listen to us when we call them and they still outwardly support things like this and the BBB? Protests aren’t moving the needle. Genuinely have no idea what I can do and I feel paralyzed 😭 What is the next needed thing?

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