Ellison’s Invisible Man must retreat to a hole–or, as he calls it, hibernate–after getting banged around by reality. With Trump as president, will the Dreamers and others who benefitted from Obama’s prosecutorial discretion have to hibernate as well, returning back to the shadows?
Tag Archives: Immigration
Must Dreamers “Hibernate” Again?
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Satanic Trump Unleashing Dark Forces
When Donald Trump excited the alt-right with his Wednesday night speech promising to deport all undocumented immigrants, he reminded me of Milton’s Satan inspiring Sin and Death after engineering the Fall.
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America’s Dream: We Contain Multitudes
My Trinidadian daughter-in-law today becomes an American citizen. I welcome her with an excerpt from Whitman’s “Song of Myself” that contains multitudes.
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Immigrants Touched by Grace
Philip Levine gives us a poem which serves as a reproof to those in the GOP who bash immigrants. We see much needed moments of humanity, important to remember in this election season.
On the Pope, Walls, and Robinson Crusoe
Pope Francis recently labeled as “not Christian” those who build walls but not bridges. By this standard, the walls, both literal and metaphorical, being advocated by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz bring their own Christianity in doubt. An examination of the walls build by Robinson Crusoe, however, shows how Christians have rationalized walls.
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Fences Entrap Rather than Protect
“Robinson Crusoe” functions as a parable about America’s fear of immigrants.
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Steinbeck Described Anti-Migrant Protests
The social unrest caused by the flood of immigrants crossing the American border is described in “The Grapes of Wrath.”
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Learning to Love America
A poem for the 4th of July on how immigrants come to love America.
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High above Flood & Fire Ye Held the Scroll
Emma Lazarus writes a Statue of Liberty-type poem celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
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