For my first four years in the classroom, I taught English as a second language to Somali refugees and Latin American immigrants in a small city in Wisconsin. I offer my experience teaching these children not as an omniscient viewpoint but as an informative sliver of a perspective.

Which immigrants should we let in or remove? On what criteria? What benefits should we provide or not? While important, answering those questions is not this article’s focus.

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Instead, I’m interested in how many immigrants interact with our institutions once they’re here. What do they learn about our country? How do we shape them or

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