Below are posts associated with the “immigration” tag.
🔗 linkblog: I Don’t Have Words'
I always appreciate Sam’s writing and especially here. I’m waiting to see what—if anything—my current church has to say about the current mess, but I have a deep fondness for the church I grew up in, and it’s deeply disappointing for a rich church that is willing to throw those resources behind its interests to decide that combatting the present cruelty is not one of those interests.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report'
Rank hypocrisy. I don’t necessarily think Musk should have been deported way back when, but I think he should be called out on this.
the missionary with the expired visa
Over the past few years, I’ve been slowly digitizing a bunch of analog letters, keepsakes, and other things that I think are worth keeping a copy of in the Day One journaling app (and, more importantly, in a PDF export from Day One). My current project is copying over a bunch of old emails that I sent friends during the two years I served as a Latter-day Saint missionary, and in the email I was copying this morning, I wrote about a time when I was working as the legal secretary for the mission and had to do an audit of our legal documents because: