Anat Shenker-Osorio5d ago
Birthright Citizenship is an argument about what America is. If we purport to call this "land of the free, home of the brave," we honor & respect people who show courage & tenacity in spades: the #BraveOfUs who move, who make a way out of no way at all.

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Show threadAnat Shenker-Osorio5d ago
As absolutely vital as all of the heroic pushback against ICE/DHS abuses is, indeed MORE MORE MORE needed, we cannot truly win without a full-throated affirmation that immigrants are awesome. Not villains, not victims, not valets (aka doing jobs no one wants) but tenacious dreamers and doers.
Show threadAnat Shenker-Osorio
Even abolishing ICE, as we must, does not #CloseTheCamps nor #BringThemHome. And even those steps do not fully allow us to exit this decades' long trap where immigrants are cast as "other" in service to right wing divide in order to conquer narratives. We must make the affirmative argument.
Mar 31 at 3:44pmWeb
Show threadAnat Shenker-Osorio5d ago
As the saying goes, you cannot win on defense. We cannot let ourselves get excited about Trump's plummeting numbers on what pollsters misname "immigration policy" (it's not - it's crimes against humanity) and think that does the job. Ending abuses is not the same as affirming belonging.