New Immigrant Empathy Campaign

Swim19 · 02-08-2021, 06:56 PM

The 1960s song ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ becomes immigration anthem of empathy in new ad campaign

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A new cover of the Joe South hit, performed by Boston-based Lake Street Dive, is the soundtrack of 60-second public-service announcements, propelling the effort to reverse Trump-administration insistence that newcomers are bad for the country. An ad campaign website, BelongingBeginsWithUs.org, features dozens of personal stories of trial and belonging. Billboards are rising too.

“As a 15-year immigration-law practitioner, it’s the first effort that I am aware of to try to show that immigrants are just people like the rest of us, and to do so on a national scale, with major financial backing,” said Philadelphia lawyer Alex Isbell, the area ambassador for the American Immigration Council.

Philadelphia-based agencies that support and defend immigrants, battered by the four-year onslaught of nationalist Trump administration directives, policies, and rules, say the toughest thing to change will be the one not written on an executive order — the belief that immigration equates to criminality.

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The groups want people to undertake “micro-compassions,” starting with the simplest gestures — a hello, a wave, a smile, sharing a meal, or helping to shovel a snowy walk. That goes for immigrants and for others who may feel left out or ignored in society.

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MIdreamer · 02-09-2021, 02:10 PM

In a way, this is how the whole Dream Act movement started. When dreamers started to come out and show that we are just normal people and American (without paper).

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