By Sania Irwin, LWVUS
Few things are more deeply woven into the story of the United States than immigration.
After all, with the exception of Indigenous Americans and the descendants of enslaved people, every one of us is from an immigrant family…it’s just a matter of generation. We, or our parents, or our “great greats,” came here from a foreign land, carrying hope for a better life. I myself left my home country of Bangladesh (more on that later) to come to the United States for college, and clearly, I stayed! (Read the complete story here: https://www.lwv.org/blog/why-immigration-central-our-nation?supporter.appealCode=EA1C00C261001SI0)