A mother and son of my acquaintance in a city far from here are standing up for their immigrant coworkers whose children attend schools where recent ICE raids have plucked kids from classrooms and snatched parents who’ve come to pick them up. These frightened coworkers are keeping the kids home from school and forgoing Christmas and grocery shopping for fear of capture, detention and deportation. So the mother and son are taking coworkers’ shopping lists and picking up/delivering the goods they need. This — not flag-waving, political hoo-hah, indignant tweets or even writing letters to the editor, for that matter — is what it really means to be an American.
Darrell Durham
Northwest side
Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.
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