At a time when public conversations about immigration have become increasingly polarized, it’s worth pausing to remember the many ways immigrants and refugees strengthen Illinois every day. Instead of vilifying our immigrant neighbors, let’s remember that our local communities greatly benefit from immigrant professionals in many of our markets and industries, particularly healthcare systems in […]
Springfield Immigrant Advocacy Network
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What we meant when we wrote the Calls to Action
Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti once wrote that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way is to tell their story and start with “secondly.” I have been thinking about that idea often because history is full of stories that begin too late. Many Americans were introduced to Juneteenth only after it became a […]
