What You Don’t Know About Immigration

What You Don’t Know About Immigration is a HuffPo piece penned by Bronwyn Lea, a lawfully-present nonimmigrant. The article details the tenuousness of her nonimmigrant status, and the difficulties she’s faced in an effort to obtain greater permanency (a green card), despite being present lawfully, speaking English, having graduate degrees, and birthing USC children. She writes:

What I want you to know is that there is no line. Immigration is not like Disneyland, where if you pay enough money and queue patiently for several hours, anyone can ride Space Mountain. There is not a single line that I can stand in on my own merit. Even with language and education and money and privilege aplenty, even though I don’t come from India or China or Mexico, there is no line for me. So, I’m holding my husband’s hand while he stands in that elusive, exclusive line; and we’re hoping for the best.

It’s a nice, short piece that would work well in class. Perhaps it could even be paired with the Thronson exercise.

-KitJ