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E=MC HammeredTerrell Jermaine Starr
9/05/17 6:02pm
I work in higher ed communications for a large, multi-college community college district in a city with one of the highest percentages of immigrant residents in the country. We have literally thousands of DACA students who could be affected by this, and it’s jarring to be dealing with this on the first day of fall classes. This already vulnerable and anxious population was made even more so with today’s announcement.

It did provide me the opportunity to disseminate a statement reaffirming our commitment to serving all students, regardless of immigration status. It’s not every day you get to go to work and draft a public statement calling the president, his administration, and their actions “illogical,” “unreasonable,” “callous,” “thoughtless,” and “foolish,” so at least that’s a personal silver lining.
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MissCTerrell Jermaine Starr
9/05/17 11:08pm
I feel so, so much for these people and their families.
My mother was an immigrant and it took her DECADES to become a legal citizen, even after being an RN and saving lives of Americans all that time. I was a child when her citizenship was made official. I can’t fathom being worried my mother would be taken away from me and sent back to her dangerous, developing country. Not as a child, not now.
It’s absolutely infuriating to me when people say, “Oh, it’s easy, people should just wait in line and fill out the paperwork to become a citizen” but they don’t realize, and refuse to believe that it’s not that easy. It’s not that fast. It’s definitely not equal for every country. Many countries have decades long wait lists just to apply for a temporary visa, and those still favor the wealthy, university educated, English-fluent, and law-abiding, with American citizens as immediate family to sponsor them. Without all of that, you’re almost completely out of luck.
Especially if you come from a country of brown people.
And when you have all of those things, to still want to come to America, there must be something really pressing going on in your home country for you to want to leave. To pack up and leave your life, your friends, your family. To give up your medical license and take up a minimum wage job, because it’s still a better life in America? It blows my mind that any country would deny an easy pathway to citizenship for these people.
But the Trump Shitshow would rather deport and deny future doctors, scientists, engineers and educators to make more room for the uneducated hateful rednecks who are the antithesis of all the things that actually make America great.
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  MujerMissC
  9/06/17 12:19am
  I’ve had many arguments with people explaining why it isn’t easy to get citizenship and all the hurdles and money it costs. Not to mention the weird, arbitrary rules in place to not make it easier.
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  Dinosaurs and Nachos, Very Legal and Very Cool!Mujer
  9/06/17 9:23am
  I am an immigration lawyer. People do not believe me when I tell them what the law really says.
  And it’s usually the older, white guys who get pissed that their wife can’t stay or get a visa. Because you know, *she* isn’t one of those “illegals.”
  Except that she probably did exactly what you are pissed about all those “illegals” doing, good sir. EXACTLY. But you know, when it’s your wife, she’s not one of the “bad ones.” It’s straight up racism that is literally codified into law.
  And you would not BELIEVE the number of people who think that someone can just apply to come to the US. Like, if you want to be here, you just....um....fill out some sort of application or something, right?
  NOPE. You don’t just decide to come to the US and do some process and end up with a green card. If you don’t have someone here to petition for you and you don’t qualify as a refugee, you’re not getting a green card. End of story. But there are still millions of people who believe that someone can proactively undertake some sort of process if they really want to come here and stay.
  There is literally no process. None.
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Prostate of Dorian GrayTerrell Jermaine Starr
9/05/17 9:42pm
The Shining Beacon on the Hill turned out to be a searchlight on a guard tower.
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DJPossessTerrell Jermaine Starr
9/06/17 5:15pm
Not everything DACA is brown. Let’s see some diversity here.
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federaleTerrell Jermaine Starr
9/05/17 5:44pm
luckily their fate rests in the hands of a fine, well-oiled institution with a storied history of smooth transactions, swift agency, and level-headed propositioning that is routinely capable of crafting upright, ethical, and forward-looking policy that assists the downtrodden and vulnerable.
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