I often think about what this city would be like without immigrants--no, not the Latinxs or people from all over the world who've come to Los Angeles as part of California, part of the U.S. I'm thinking about the Spanish "immigrants" (a.k.a. colonizers) who came and took this land from the people already living here, forcing them into slavery and submission. I'm thinking about the Anglo immigrants who came here when it was Mexico, which welcomed them and then was betrayed by them when they chose to make it part of Gringolandia. I wonder what this beautiful place would look like if the people who had lived here for hundreds of years had been allowed to flourish instead of being brutally exploited and killed. White Americans can't keep pretending like this land belongs to us while we economically subjugate poor countries then ban their economic refugees from coming here to buy the American Dream that we sold them. We can't defend DREAMers while casting their parents as the villains. At some point we're going to have to recognize that maybe the villain in this story is the U.S., and we should try and make it right, regardless of your documents ✊ #defenddaca #defendimmigrants #notmypresident #immigrantslivesmatter #thebordercrossedus (at Los Angeles, California)
