illegally squatting in our WH.

I'm so glad your neighbors had a wonderful life with many friends.

I thought the gestapo got them... glad they are "safe" in the afterlife

I've never had a problem with any immigrants documented or undocumented.

I've had PLENTY of problems with racist asshole repukes though.

I grew up in Tucson with many kids of different colors and ethnicities. They were wonderful friends and I treasured relationships with them. Their parents were very strict with them and you never saw any of them being disrespectful or unkind.

I moved constantly and met all kinds of folk - I'm very comfortable living in a metroplex and I think it s because I love variety

So heartbroken are we.

I'll take an undocumented immigrant as a neighbor ANY DAY over a fucking MAGAt, because ONE of them believes in America, the other most certainly does NOT.

I really like them, but I do worry.

I've been guilty of the same thing, for different but also 47-related reasons.

I have definitely felt grateful that my husband's brother did not live to see this administration. Same with my sister. Both of them were in nursing homes paid for by Medicaid. God knows what would have become of them if they were still living once the Big Abominable Bill's funding cuts go into affect.

was visiting my late dads for either christmas or birthay. was in his car whiulst he was at drs . didnt see the 2 ppl involved but , iremember the exchange quite well ,,, person one . (male) " are u leagel "? )person 2 ( femail) , yes i am.!!!!! love the comeback, an d what buisness is it of yours anyways) nothing more was said.

so you can imagine that a lot of my neighbors are undocumented. The wait staff at my local pupusería is also likely undocumented. I've taught lots of undocumented students at my university -- back in the day they were called "AB 540" students because of the assembly bill that gave undocumented students in-state tuition, but fortunately that shorthand has disappeared. As I've told my friends in small towns on the east coast where there are far fewer undocumented people, these people are my neighbors, friends, students, and strangers I cross paths with every day at the supermarket or on public transportation, so seeing the pain and sensing the fear in community members hurts. A lot.

Every year in LA, there seems to be an infinite supply of illegal fireworks going off in the weeks before, during, and after July 4th. This year it was much quieter because people aren't outside as much and, if they are, they don't want to draw attention to themselves. I'd always hated those goddamned fireworks going off at all hours for weeks on end, but now I miss them because of what the relative silence signifies.

i was glad she did not have to see that.

tolkien called death "the gift of men"