Comment on Supporting our Undocumented Brothers and Sisters by Indhira Hasbun

Thank you for this reflection, Abram. I really wanted to attend the UndocuAlly workshop but was unable to. The path to citizenship is certainly a very arduous and complicated road. When sharing my own experiences (this often happens with my majority counterparts) as an international student who has many barriers to immigration, the topic almost always tends to turn to undocumented immigrants. I often get asked: “doesn’t it bother you that you, being in the country legally, have a “harder path to citizenship” than “those illegals” that get married for their papers?” and this often prompts me to reflect on just how pervasive a culture that values “individuality” over “community” is on some of the majority populations. My answer is simply: NO, why should I wish them such a fate simply because I can’t achieve the same thing? My issue is not with them, I do not need them to be unhappy to feel content about my own situation. My issue is with this system and culture of oppression.

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