weighing in on immigration issues. My early Social Work career included a stint working with people in what we called the migrant stream, farm workers who traveled from Texas to Michigan each summer to pick tomatoes, cucumbers, apples. Many of them were undocumented friends and relatives of those who lived in Texas. Working with them in the fields for just one half-day on a hot July day helped me understand that only the most desperate for work people would take on this difficult task. More recently, the past 18 months, I have been working with refuge immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Nepal, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Burma, Cuba, Central African Republic. Finding an initial job---one employer--Meijer hires a lot of them in the frozen food warehouse.(I also remember a stint working in a very cold McDonalds dairy freezer). Once again, not a job that anyone not desperate for work would take. I think, we have to imagine ourselves in the shoes of those who come, whose who are attempting to escape abject poverty and random violence in their own countries. Do you remember the stories of your own grandparents, great grandparents who escaped oppression in their home countries to start anew? We are all immigrants.....
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:06:19 +0000
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