@aral ❤️

@aral Also a major reminder that, regardless of whether or not we do anything that gets us recognised as a "good person," we're almost always sitting on the brink of precarity because of some whimsical decision of a migration official or an absurd change to migration policy or a pointless missing document or... Whatever the rules are, it often feels like we're just shy of getting screwed by them and losing our home.

@aral but ... but many times these immigrants are not white! Rights are for whites!

@aral Immigrant here and I 100% agree with this.

@aral I'm always surprised when this isn't the default way someone sees it.

@aral @hembrow To be honest delivering food in all weathers is already heroic.

@aral and further still: we must work to build a world in which the notion of passports and borders don't exist. Death to xenophobia everywhere!

@aral If you are talking about US, always remember it is land of the immigrants and that’s why US is US.

@aral amen

@aral Yeah, I hate it when (closet) neonazis say to an immigrant that they count as a friend that they may stay, because they are different. As if an immigrant needs to prove themselves. Talk about privilege.

@aral yes. Neither do they need to be apologetic for anything.

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Agreed

@aral Yebbut in Ireland this week we're still grateful for the Brazilian dude and the French teenager who helped disarm the Irish-Algerian knife-attacker.

@aral We are all intermixed races and all immigrants. This is my DNA breakdown.