As the UK election looms, anti-immigration fervor is all over the news.
I am an immigrant. I bring my skills, my taxable income, my genius husband and dazzling children. I want to work and contribute to a society that is fair and equitable. I want to make a home.
I have done this at great personal cost. My relatives are dying, and because I am applying for citizenship in the UK, I can’t go home for the funerals.
Remember that when you cast your ballot. The immigrant of your imagination? It is me.