In Support Of Immigrants

When you come from an­other coun­try to a new coun­try, you are no­body.
You don’t know any­one. You have no friends, no con­nec­tions, no rel­a­tives, no fam­ily — noth­ing. Noth­ing.
Just imag­ine how hard it is to leave your coun­try, your fam­ily, your child­hood friends, your en­tire life be­hind — and start every­thing from zero.
New friend­ships.
New re­la­tion­ships.
New con­nec­tions.
Maybe, if you are lucky, even a new fam­ily.

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Be­ing an im­mi­grant is hard.
Be­ing an im­mi­grant means fight­ing with life every sin­gle day — try­ing to be­long, des­per­ately search­ing for ac­cep­tance.
Some­times peo­ple don’t care how ed­u­cated you are, how cul­tured you are, or how much you have achieved.
For them, you sim­ply do not be­long here.
“This is not your coun­try.”
Even af­ter so much hard work, sac­ri­fice, and end­less im­mi­gra­tion strug­gles — even af­ter be­com­ing a law­ful cit­i­zen — some peo­ple still do not ac­cept you.
They cut you off.
They close doors.
They do not give you op­por­tu­ni­ties.
For them, you are still no­body.
You are still “the im­mi­grant.”
These days, it is es­pe­cially hard to live in this coun­try — es­pe­cially when the pres­i­dent and his ad­min­is­tra­tion openly at­tack peo­ple like me: peo­ple who are try­ing to build some­thing new through hard work, ded­i­ca­tion, and hon­esty.
Please be kind to every im­mi­grant you meet.
It is okay if some­one is un­doc­u­mented.
Most of them want le­gal sta­tus — but the sys­tem makes every­thing painfully dif­fi­cult.
Please open your hearts and give im­mi­grants op­por­tu­ni­ties.
Every­one de­serves a good life.
Every­one de­serves life, lib­erty, pri­vate prop­erty, and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness.
Give im­mi­grants a chance.
Show them sup­port.
Show them love.
Please do not close your doors to them.
Open your hearts.
Sissy Sak­varl­ishvili
Tar­ry­town

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