In our current environment around immigration and citizenship, it is important for folks to share and hear other people's stories of how these debates impact those around us. Folks like me have the privilege and freedom to share, so here is just one of mine. Of course, I wrote stuff. Here is a snippet, "But this is not just about immigration. The insidious nature of intellectualizing the impact of our national policy and personal perspectives is about racism, gender, incarceration, Palestine, protest, education, militarization, healthcare, etc. We fool ourselves into thinking that we can or should be completely objective about any of these things, or that we can be neutral because we are not directly affected. I do it. We all do it, but it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the cocoon of false objectivity is crumbling like never before. I fear that the cocoon will burst open and drop us covered in a muck of stale ambivalence into a world that is filled with destruction driven ...