In that vein, I am also disheartened by the recent erosion of civil
rights protections in our Nation. The calls for bigger walls and closed
doors are not only bad, costly policies, they run counter to our
society's shared value for inclusion over exclusion. Too many of us
seem to forget the immigrant roots within our own families. If we lose
sight of our Nation's founding principles, as some in Washington would
like us to do, we will lose out on the innovations we have seen from
immigrants and immigrant families. If we had rejected immigrants years ago, Apple Computers might never
have been founded by the son of a Syrian man. I worry that at a time
when we still have so much work to do to make our Union more perfect
and to provide truly equal rights for all, under the current
administration we are at risk of backtracking on hard-fought progress
made by civil rights leaders who bled and even died for the rights of
all Americans, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual
orientation, income or ZIP Code to have the right to vote, to have
equal protection under the law, to have basic worker protections, and
for the everyday rights and privileges so many of us take for granted. We still have so much progress left to make if we want the American
dream to be accessible to all Americans--equal pay for equal work, a
criminal justice system that truly provides justice for all, nationwide
leave policies that enable anyone to take time to care for a sick
family member or to start a family, a society that is accessible for
all disabled Americans and truly equal for all LGBTQ Americans.
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