Christina Quinn’s Reviews > The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math > Status Update

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity - the Abrahamic religions - all center stories of migration within their sacred texts. In addition to Jesus’s own migration, numerous Old Testament verses command people to extend hospitality to foreigners.

1 in 4 women in the US has experienced physical and sexual violence from a partner. Over 50% of all women murdered in the US are killed by a current or former romantic partner.

Despite stereotypes to the contrary, most undocumented immigrants enter the country legally. Overstaying a tourist visa is one of the most common ways individuals ends up undocumented in the US.

The majority of individuals in the world speak more than one language.

The US allows recognized war refugees to legally work here and enjoy freedom of movement. However, it doesn’t recognize the cartel wars as a formal conflict, and so people like my family and me, fleeing that violence, are not eligible for legal protection.

The majority of women in the US have been catcalled before they turn eighteen, a statistic that includes 13% of girls younger than eleven.

I am a resident who loves this country, yet I am only harbored here, not even tolerated by most people. I want this place to shelter me safely.

Every year undocumented workers pay more than $11 billion in taxes. Estimates are that 75% of us pay taxes each year.

We don’t talk about people being “documented”. It’s a label that exists largely only for those who lack it.