INMIGRANT

When I saw Jorge Ramos being expelled from a press conference with Donald Trump and what followed, I knew it was a clear message against Latinos (particularly Mexicans) in the hand of all the hate speech, racism and intolerance that he handled in the presidential campaign.

The actions that Jorge Ramos took as a journalist after the event seemed courageous and dignified.

He is Mexican but also American, he has been living in this country for half his life, here he formed a family (he has two children) and he is still considered a foreigner, a stranger, as he has been known every day in his social media by many people.

In his book "The challenge of a Latino immigrant in the Trump era" he talks about how that meeting with Trump changed his life, from his childhood in Mexico and his beginnings as a journalist, of his decision to migrate to the United States and how the immigrant loses so much when he arrives to settle in another country.

On November 8, 2016 I will never forget it because apart from fulfilling the dreaded 30 (yes, that was my age of terror but it has not turned out to be anything bad I must say) it was also the presidential elections in the United States where Clinton lost against Trump.

When I made the decision to leave Mexico, to live in the United States, I knew that I renounced many things: family, friends, my comfort zone, culture, work, the country where I was born and loved, but I also knew that it was for start a life with the person I had chosen to be with.

I will not lie it is difficult to leave what you know as a home, leave your family and start in a country where you are a stranger, the country where I used to go on vacation and shopping, became the country where I would live and that entails sacrifice.

In a country fractured and divided by political issues, Ramos has been in charge of being the voice or one of the voices that asks what immigrants want to know, questions, and puts issues on the table that concern everyone in this country. consider an immigrant

Politics can not be ignore to those who live in it, but it seems that those who exercise it are ignored to the interests of a sector of society.

In times of Trump there is a general uncertainty, I live in my home with my husband who has a work visa (he has been in this country for 5 years, in which he works legally and pays taxes like everyone else, but without the same rights ) a visa that is threatened with the departure of the United States from NAFTA. That uncertainty is lived by thousands of people terrified by deportations, by threats, by the constant discourse of seeing them as strangers, as people who do not belong to the country who have contributed and helped to strengthen.

Ramos has the opportunity to listen and understand a sector of the population that feels forgotten and threatened, in his talk he did not stop talking about the "Dreamers" and the important role they currently have since they are the ones that are going to change things .

During the talk a follower of Trump began to shout at him that he was a liar, to which he let him explain his point and did not run it from the talk he just said "I will not act like Trump did with me"

A country is nothing without its people, and those people come from many places of origin, but that does not mean less, in the book Ramos expresses the challenge we are currently experiencing and what we can do to cope with these times: Resist and not be afraid, because after all this country that for many is already home will also be for me some day.