I am currently under a TN visa and have gone through an insane amount of hoops to get here. Still trying to win the H1-B Lottery because its the only way i can apply for residency. Been living in the US for 10+ years starting with a student visa.

  • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah I have heard the same sentiment from friends and classmates unfortunately and obviously there are a ton of US-born people that have the same (or worse) ideas about "legal" immigration. What ended up "radicalizing" you about immigration? Have you seen people changing their minds and getting a better take about it in the last couple years at least?

    • Ludens [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      For sure its getting better, i think trump kinda made us have a common enemy and that helped a lot. Personally for me it was teachers, specifically teachers in the US. They see this shit daily and in the most raw possible way. From students who's parents got deported to students who have been told by both mexicans and americans that they don't belong in either group. it's rough for the kids out there.

      • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Most white Americans, even the best intentioned liberals, don't realize that Mexico still has a lot of problems with colonial hierarchy in their own country. Internalized colonialism is the hardest kind to break, that's why there's fuckheads like the Latinos for Trump. I didn't think about that bit about teachers, but now that you say it a huge percentage of latinx students I knew in college were going into education. The school system in America is still an organ of colonialism, but at least in my neck of the woods we're going through the growing pains of bringing in new teaching methods.