Over the past five years, I’ve produced more than 700 podcast episodes listening to first- and second-generation immigrants across the country tell their stories. I’m Pakistani-American. I know what it means to carry two worlds. And lately, I’ve been hearing from people in the Midwest in Missouri, Kansas, around Kansas City — and they’re describing the same quiet pattern.
A pattern that immigration enforcement data and legal aid statistics can’t capture.
It has nothing to do with paperwork or legal status. It has everything to do with what happens inside people when the climate tightens…