Many Asian American and Pacific Islander adults have experienced or witnessed some degree of upheaval because of the Trump administration’s heightened immigration policies, a new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds, while most say the U.S. is no longer the land of opportunity for immigrants.
A new poll released Monday from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of AAPI adults say they — or someone they know — have been detained or deported within the last year, started carrying proof of immigration status or U.S. citizenship, upended travel plans or significantly changed their routines because of immigration status.
Was it ever?
I know people have been raging about it for decades but I never saw it. Who the hell would ever want to live in that hellhole?
Yeah, but it wasn’t as good for natives
It could be good. You used to just show up and sign your name at Ellis Island and that was it. What happened after often depended on your skin color, but not always.
My family escaped Russian persecution in the pogroms by immigrating to the US.
Yes, there was a time when the US stood for values written on the Statue of Liberty.
By the time your family immigrated here the US had already been slaving an entire population for over a century, undid all social reconstruction in the wake of the war required to end that slaving, and was just about winding down it’s genocide of half a continent’s worth of indigenous tribes. If you feel like the US stood for something good back then, what do you think is so different about today?