immigrants

For millions of new Americans, sports aren’t accessible. I struggled to adapt and I’m from just across the border. Now imagine coming from halfway around the world.

Packed into this equation is the obligation I feel to live up to the rankings, but more than anything, to the legacy of those who have made it possible for me to know what career I want to pursue and actively go for it.

The threat of deportation is what kept many members of my community silent — unable to advocate for their basic needs of safety, fair wages and a retirement plan.

From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.

This disastrous miscarriage of health management is built upon a health care industry that too often caricatures its patients and treats them with a one-size-fits-all mindset.

Growing up with random acts of kindness as a part of a daily routine instilled me with compassion and encouraged me to continue practicing them.

When irrational assumptions are cleared out, the family separation policy seems more like a failure of empathy and understanding.

To vote is to claim agency — to use the freedoms subscribed to you by law as a source of empowerment within our democratic system.

It is because we are not safe on this campus. And under these circumstances, we cannot continue to choose to be reactive over being proactive.

We should be welcoming immigrants with open arms and seeking to provide them with full access to the gains that we have necessarily made by exploiting the entirety of world.