One student was a test case for resettling detainees of Japanese descent
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TAKEI FAMILY
Esther Takei at 19. |
A Quaker accountant who had worked at the incarceration camp in Poston, Ariz., explained to Esther Takei's parents that their 19-year old daughter would enroll at Pasadena Junior College while living with his family in Altadena. Her resettlement would gauge the public reaction and, if all went well, lead the way for tens of thousands more to return to the West Coast, recounts The Los Angeles Times.
Esther's parents agreed to let her go, putting their fears aside. They needed to show the nation their people’s humanity, and their loyalty. But when Esther boarded the westbound train a few weeks later, her father had a moment of panic: Am I sending my daughter to her death?
“For a long time, immigrants [were] pitted against each other in the debate about immigration reforms,” shet old the Los Angeles Times.. “In this very moment when there are so many threats from the Trump administration, it really is time for us to band together with other communities of color to say that home is here.”
Experts say Asian and Pacific Islander recipients of DACA are often overlooked despite there being over 1.7 million undocumented members of this group in the country,. mmigration advocates believe undocumented Asians need to align themselves with the undocumented from other countries.
"Thanksgiving was sacred to us," writes Su-Jit Lin in the HuffPost. "It was the only day of the year the exhaust fans were silenced and the lights turned off. The only day of the year all six of us spent in leisure as a family, present for one another and having conversations instead of just barking orders while trying to feed a faceless stream of hangry strangers. And it became the only day of the year my father was able to share his dreams for us, a real American dream: a better life for his kids than what he was resigned to.
"For about a decade, my family spent almost every Thanksgiving Day visiting different universities in driving distance of our home base in Suffolk County, and we’d wander aimlessly around the deserted campus of a college our dad wanted on our radars in the hopes that we could see ourselves there.
Esther's parents agreed to let her go, putting their fears aside. They needed to show the nation their people’s humanity, and their loyalty. But when Esther boarded the westbound train a few weeks later, her father had a moment of panic: Am I sending my daughter to her death?
Undocumented Asians say they must speak up or lose DACA
Hong-Mei Pang, director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco, said the unclear future of DACA makes it high time for people to work closely, regardless of their backgrounds and countries of origin.“For a long time, immigrants [were] pitted against each other in the debate about immigration reforms,” shet old the Los Angeles Times.. “In this very moment when there are so many threats from the Trump administration, it really is time for us to band together with other communities of color to say that home is here.”
Experts say Asian and Pacific Islander recipients of DACA are often overlooked despite there being over 1.7 million undocumented members of this group in the country,. mmigration advocates believe undocumented Asians need to align themselves with the undocumented from other countries.
An unconventional Thanksgiving tradition changes their children's lives
"Thanksgiving was sacred to us," writes Su-Jit Lin in the HuffPost. "It was the only day of the year the exhaust fans were silenced and the lights turned off. The only day of the year all six of us spent in leisure as a family, present for one another and having conversations instead of just barking orders while trying to feed a faceless stream of hangry strangers. And it became the only day of the year my father was able to share his dreams for us, a real American dream: a better life for his kids than what he was resigned to.
"For about a decade, my family spent almost every Thanksgiving Day visiting different universities in driving distance of our home base in Suffolk County, and we’d wander aimlessly around the deserted campus of a college our dad wanted on our radars in the hopes that we could see ourselves there.
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