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Here’s where Tanton’s personal history becomes essential to understanding America’s recent resurgence of immigrant hate.

With time, “immigrant” would become a euphemism for “nonwhite.”

According to the California Immigrant Data Portal, California alone is home to 2.44 million undocumented immigrants and 3.59 million U.S. citizens who live with undocumented family members.

Mexican immigrant mothers and their American-born children — seeking basic healthcare at Los Angeles County General Hospital, for instance — were scapegoated as undesirable and deported directly from the hospital.

In this case, it would be preferable for the media to educate us on our rights, and what it’s like to have those rights taken away; on the value of pluralism versus uniformity; what it’s like to be an immigrant, which not a bad thing but a hard thing.