I know all too well how some Americans feel about immigrants: I was undocumented for 25 years, and I am a child of immigrants who remain undocumented.
I also wrote a book about the daily lives of migrants during the Trump years.
At the time, the Trump administration seemed to be the worst possible administration for immigrants and their advocates.
All the while, Republicans have been steadily marching toward authoritarianism, book ban by book ban and voter suppression tactic by voter suppression tactic.
I was a child in Ecuador in the 1990s, a time when Latin America was reeling from the effects of decades of coups, dictatorships and political repression.