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What An America Without Immigrants Looks Like
- The Bracero Program brought over four million Mexican workers into American fields during WWII, highlighting the contradiction of welcoming work but rejecting workers.
- Immigration lawyer Hillary Walsh challenges the system's cruelty towards immigrants, emphasizing their vital contributions to all industries.
- Undocumented immigrants pay over $11 billion in taxes annually, working in essential frontline sectors but facing vulnerability and exploitation.
- The absence of immigrants would have far-reaching consequences, impacting healthcare, education, construction, agriculture, and more.
- Despite challenges, many immigrants persist in believing in America's values, highlighting the need for compassion and integration.
- Immigrants face systemic barriers and trauma, with the immigration debate revolving around identity and belonging in America.
- Immigration laws often overlook dignity, with Walsh advocating for trauma-informed care and building her practice around healing and restoration.
- An America without immigrants would signify a loss of diversity, innovation, storytelling, and the erosion of foundational values.
- Walsh aims to change perceptions of undocumented immigrants as neighbors, parents, workers, and believers in freedom.
- The crucial question is not the consequences of losing immigrants, but rather the impact of denying their integral role in shaping America.
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