I need you to listen good and listen hard. I know that some of you are my friends and my neighbors, people I care about and people I have known a long time.
I don't understand how you could have done what you have done. You voted against everything I believe in. You voted against the inscription on the statue of liberty, which reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuge of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Emma Lazarus
Last year, Donald Trump said of undocumented immigrants: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
The truth about undocumented immigrants and life in general is much more complicated. Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes. They pay into the system. They pay for benefits they may never see. See this article in The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocumented-immigrants-and-taxes/499604/
When you talk about undocumented immigrants and not wanting them to come here, is it really about jobs, or is it just racism? Does it make you uncomfortable to live among people who don't look like you? If so, what are you afraid of?
It's easy to talk about immigration reform in neat lines and cute slogans. But these are real people. Real people's lives. As a human being, I feel like it's my duty to stand up for what's right. And I will oppose your walls and your hate:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/i-dont-feel-safe-undocumented-immigrants-fear-what-trump-will-do-as-president/2016/11/09/0a2bfc36-a6cc-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html
