Toward a liberatory practice: Shifting the ideological premise of trauma work with immigrants.

Abstract

She has undisguised contempt for America and its people, this should worry you . . . Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country. A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the people we try our hardest to help, have come to hate us passionately. Maybe that's our fault for asking too little of immigrants. We are self-confident enough to never make them assimilate, so they never feel fully American. Or maybe the problem is deeper than that. Maybe we're importing people from places whose values are simply antithetical to ours . . . there is a problem. Whatever the cause, this is unsustainable. No country can import a large number of people who hate it and expect to survive. . . . So be grateful for Ilhan Omar; as annoying as she is, she is a living fire alarm. A warning to the rest of us: we better change our immigration system immediately, or else.