{"id":3400,"date":"2007-05-22T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/22\/must-read\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T14:01:28","slug":"must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t link to brownfemipower’s amazing post about la familia and immigration<\/a>, because I wanted to say something. I wanted to argue for open borders. Then I thought that when I get round to writing about open borders then those comments should stand alone.<\/p>\n

brownfemipower covers so much in her post including transience: <\/p>\n

In Michigan, it\u2019s different. Detroit, Flint or Saginaw may have established Mexican communities\u2013but in the community I grew up in, there wasn\u2019t one single family that had grandparents or even parents who had been born there. All of us whose families had settled in the neighborhood had multiple friends that disappeared after a year\u2013their families moved back to Mexico or Texas or over to other farming states for work. Two of my best friends as a child left Michigan in the second grade. Only one wound up coming back to Michigan\u2013when we were both in high school.<\/p>\n

And as somebody who worked in the fields\u2013I can remember falling in love with a dark-skinned, lightly muscled boy who smiled at me every time I walked past. He was there for one season and I never saw him again. A common happening in migrant work.<\/p>\n

These disappearances were very upsetting to me, but I lived\u2013just like I know the people who disappeared lived as well. We\u2019re all used to it, and we\u2019ve learned to accommodate shadow figures, shadow relationships into our lives. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read brownfemipower<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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