Stop using the “diligent” cup to defend immigrants

In response to Ice raids In Los Angeles, Kim Kardashian, for example, books On social media, “When we witness innocent people, working hard from their families in inhuman ways, we have to speak,” while the Republic David Valdu from California recently, recently, recently, recently, recently. books It urges the Trump administration to “give priority to remove well -known criminals for diligent people who lived safely.”

Serious and productive work is not bad, but when people praise inventory and defend immigrants because they are diligent, this is not the full courtesy that people believe.

Migrants deserve dignity and respect, regardless of their hard work.

Vanessa Cardinas, Executive Director of the American Immigration Group, said when she grew up in Bolivia, she was working with “ahínco”, which means that you put “your soul and your heart in it”, it was a good thing. But as Latina, she has an interest when “hard work” is used to suggest that “migrants should do jobs that no one else wants.”

“I think the conversation focus should be on the fact that this administration targets people in a random manner, and in this process, they really harm families and societies and really influence not only their lives, but ways to live their societies,” said Cárdenas.

It is true that immigrants are doing hard, without them, the American economy will collapse. The government appreciates that About 40 % of agricultural workers, tenants This harvest food for our tables has no work permission. Immigrants are also demographic who are likely to work on evenings, and on weekends in a group of critical fields such as health care, commercial bakeries, dairy and meat companies, or in construction workers, according to A report from the new American economy.