Trading four seasons and the subway for the gold coast and traffic seem like a far cry from avoiding drought or constant earthquakes. It’s the end of March and the beginning of Spring.

Last week the Trump administration and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services took an important step to increasing the marginalization of immigrants living and working in the US. In February of this year “the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) …

The land and its borders are meant to make us know whose team we’re on. Not so much to divide us but to tell us who our allies are. There is clear proof and no denying that this land was taken from the Native American who was living here.

The most famous destructive immigrants in the United States were terrorists who used box cutters and planes. The intersection of guns and immigrants can be a little difficult to pinpoint at times. One place these two hot button issues collide is drug smuggling.

The importance of art and imagery to transcend political views in conversations on subjects as important as immigration is incalculable. “Art reinforces the movement, it helps grow the movement, [and] it creates the identity of the movement. It educates and it inspires…

Keep your poor and your tired; and oh yea, you better not get sick either. Catastrophic health sounds like what would strike people involved in a horrific incident. In fact it is a term allocated to health related conditions that will certainly lead to an undesirable end; in insurance terms, death and/or dismemberment.

Yesterday, February 4th, I had the honor and the privilege to take part in the annual #IRIS #RunforRefugees. It was an opportunity to use my body to engage in what is affectionately known as #participaction. Along with thousands of others, I travelled to #WilburCrossHighSchool in New Haven, Connecticut in order to use my body and my actions to take a stand for Refugees attempting to resettle in Connecticut and across the United States.

In a world where bi-racial couples can be seen in national advertising campaigns and one of televisions most beloved talk show hosts is an open, out and married lesbian; many would argue that the United States has made great strides in their social policy.

In what appears to be the very near future, those who will become undocumented and their families will be forced to make difficult decisions. They will have to determine whether to return “home” to uncertain fates in unstable homelands or try and figure out how they will remain safely together in an environment that is growing ever more hostile towards them.

According to Trump, who recently stated that all the immigrants we get are coming from “shithole countries”, this shift will help the US decrease the flow of illegal drugs into the US.

The idea that we will be moving forward into a glorious past is a thought that seems to be wasted on many groups that have lived a marginalized existence in the United States. From the American Indian to the Xenophobe a future that relives the racist, sexist, homophobic, homogeneous rhetoric of the past will likely benefit only a select few.

This Christmas, while many Americans will be enjoying the warmth of hearts and hearths with their families, hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people, also known as DREAMERS [“roughly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, given temporary protection from deportation by the Obama administration.”

Initially my research into this topic yielded a great deal of information about immigrants and the labor force. One of the most important thing immigrants do in the United States is sustain and maintain the labor force.

In Trumps America many immigrants in the United States are living in constant fear of being deported or worse. Being forced to return to a homeland that now seems more like a foreign land to an uncertain future is a reality far displaced from the dream that brought them here in the first place.

December ushers in the holiday season. With Christmas just over three weeks away, the New Year is just around the corner. Research shows that many immigrants in the United States are feeling under pressure to take the leap into becoming citizens.

The first immigrants to arrive to the United States were religious refugees. The Native Americans who they met here welcomed them and helped them survive.

Celebrating accents, diverse gourmands and craftsmanship passed down for generations were all once common American ideals. For much of the first world, immigrants make up large percentages of the population.