By Christie Purifoy When President Trump announced the end of DACA, another battleground in his ongoing fight against immigrants and immigration, I observed my blonde, blue-eyed, non-Spanish-speaking child with alarm. His biological link to Mexico...
By Jon Carlson It started the way these things often do—a routine announcement from the pilot that they had a warning light in the cockpit. We couldn't take off yet. So we sat on...
By Matthew Jeung and Russell Jeung We've been told that when the government separated my grand-uncle from his mother and sisters in 1941, he waited at a bus stop for his father to pick...
By Katelyn Durst We are here and you'd like to forget it, have us more hidden then our black faces and tired, old eyes. Isn't it enough to leave my own country as a...
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto The bangles are gold, a deeply yellow gold. My preference would be for something a bit more subtle, less yellow…but these gold bangles are so yellow because they are pure, 24-karat...
A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States By Josina Guess "I want my daughter to be somebody, to surpass me, to have a better future and a better...
A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States By Josina Guess "When your back is up against the wall, you do what you have to do to survive." Elena*...
By Matthew Soerens In 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated a comprehensive immigration reform bill and immigrants went to the streets in massive marches, it was difficult to find a book with a distinctly...
By Russell Jeung, PhD "Burmese army soldiers burned down Christian churches in our villages," my foster daughter explained when asked about why she had to flee the Chin state of Burma. Government religious persecution...
By Aimee Fritz I'll admit I'm tired of hearing about the border wall every day. Depending on the news outlet, someone is either lamenting the separation of children from parents, tear gas, and the...
