The second I finished this book I cried heaving sobs of despair. That last sentence, which is a quote from the Bible is all it took. “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40) Undocumented Americans made me feel ineffective as an American. Here I am with this godawful privilege of living here, and what am I doing with my life?? There are hundreds of thousands to probably millions of undocumented people here in the United States, and our government takes every opportunity to scourge, disband, separate, lock out, extricate, kill, terrorize, and rain down hellfire upon their lives every minute of the day. Yet, undocumented Americans literally support most infrastructures of our society in ways no one could even begin to imagine. These same people were doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers, professors, property landowners, businessmen and businesswomen who all had lives, hoping to gain more of an opportunity from the US, all to come here and be abused, mistreated, deported, abandoned, uninsured, overworked, underpaid, and walked on. The US should be ashamed of herself… and this current administration has done nothing but proven how uncivilized it has become in the eyes of the world. We are our own monster in the making. Especially when people support a racist who is currently occupying the White House. This book is unflinching, direct, persuasive, emotional, personal, and complex in discussing the emotional upheaval, fear, terror, anxiety, desperation, and even gratefulness that undocumented people face while living here in the United States. Villavicencio also shares with her readers her own personal stories of living here as an undocumented child, initially left behind in Ecuador until her parents return for her, explains how unbearable, uncomfortable, and how debilitating it can be living and working as an undocumented person, all while paying taxes for which cannot be recouped at all, for which health insurance cannot be purchased, for which help is not often sought because of the fear of deportation. (Continued in comments) #undocumentedamericans #mustread https://www.instagram.com/p/CHLmuqjA6ig/?igshid=1ikdmvbhib6nn
