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Alina López
Like Luiselli herself, Luiselli’s husband is a writer and an immigrant. When their family takes a road trip to Arizona and listens to radio programs covering the sudden influx of child migrants, Luiselli’s husband engages in conversations with her about how, exactly, to talk about the “immigration crisis” with their own children.
Luiselli’s Husband Quotes in Tell Me How It Ends
The Tell Me How It Ends quotes below are all either spoken by Luiselli’s Husband or refer to Luiselli’s Husband. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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We wanted to become “resident aliens,” even though we knew what applying for green cards implied: the lawyers, the expenses, the many vaccinations and medical exams, the months of sustained uncertainty, the rather humiliating intermediate steps, such as having to wait for an “advance parole” document in order to be able to leave the country and be paroled back in, like a criminal, as well as the legal prohibition against traveling abroad, without losing immigration status, before being granted advance parole. Despite all that, we decided to apply.
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We wonder if the reactions would be different were all these children of a lighter color: of better, purer breeds and nationalities. Would they be treated more like people? More like children? We read the papers, listen to the radio, see photographs, and wonder.
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Luiselli’s Husband Quotes in Tell Me How It Ends
The Tell Me How It Ends quotes below are all either spoken by Luiselli’s Husband or refer to Luiselli’s Husband. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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We wanted to become “resident aliens,” even though we knew what applying for green cards implied: the lawyers, the expenses, the many vaccinations and medical exams, the months of sustained uncertainty, the rather humiliating intermediate steps, such as having to wait for an “advance parole” document in order to be able to leave the country and be paroled back in, like a criminal, as well as the legal prohibition against traveling abroad, without losing immigration status, before being granted advance parole. Despite all that, we decided to apply.
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We wonder if the reactions would be different were all these children of a lighter color: of better, purer breeds and nationalities. Would they be treated more like people? More like children? We read the papers, listen to the radio, see photographs, and wonder.
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