Shortly after the elections, I published a blog post about one of Time Magazine’s articles on immigration. In that post, I mentioned my Venezuelan co-worker who “didn’t want them here.”
It took just two months of Trump’s presidency for her position to alter in a most drastic way. Now, each time we go for lunch, she tells me what a horrible person Trump is to deport people when “maybe ten out of two hundred are criminals, and the others are honest hard-working people.” Now she sees for herself the impact of all Trump’s policies on economics and on people’s well-being in general, and she is asking me whether Democrats will be able “to put everything back” or some irreversible damage is already done.
And while I would prefer these revelations to come before, not after the fact, I hope she is one of many.
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