📚 I've just never read anything like this before. The author's voice is so strong and so clear - filled with rage and sorrow and love.
📚 Abandoning the straight journalistic approach gives us a window into lives we don't usually see in mainstream media. We all know stories about border crossings or legal troubles once people arrive in the States, but we hardly ever see their inner lives and the mental toll that being undocumented takes on people.
📚 To be perfectly transparent, I had never considered the role of undocumented people in the post-9/11 days or in Flint. I know how privileged that makes me, and now I know to look for people in this position and how to do what I can to support them.