“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Martin Luther King Jr. History class was not always my favorite class at school. Especially since I’m not good at memorizing names and dates. I trusted that at school I was learning everything I needed to know about the history of the United States, …
“Jose, who is 3 years old, and his mother presented themselves to U.S. Border Patrol officials at a port of entry on the southern border. She feared gang violence and threats in her native Guatemala. Upon arriving in the United States, Jose was taken from her, and she was placed in an immigration jail.” This …
I am an immigrant and the daughter of immigrants. I was born in El Salvador and came to the United States at age 4 with my mother. My parents had to make the difficult decision to immigrate. Due to the repression and violence associated with the start of the civil war. El Salvador suffered one …
