Good shit from Héctor Tobar's challenging book of essays, Our Migrant Souls:
"In their everyday lives, United States citizens can suffer through a kind of undocumented status.... Bad credit scores can deny them housing or a car loan; unpaid bills can land them in bankruptcy proceedings and in Dickensian debt courts, where a judge can send them to jail. Your lack of health insurance can be a fatal form of undocumentation. Identity theft can make you, in effect, undocumented. And the bad documentation of a past arrest, or prison term, or even unpaid parking tickets, can deny you a job, or the safety of a rented home.
"It's no accident that the immigration-enforcement spectacle has taken on ever-greater ferocity the more that Americans, and especially white Americans, feel small before the power of data-driven consumer capitalism."
#immigration #undocumented #waronthepoor #empathy #privilege #healthcare #bankruptcy