Immigrant hopes realized in the Michigan vote

Voting probably wasn’t the first thing on our parents’ or grandparents’ minds when they arrived in the U.S. from countries and provinces where democracy was a pipe dream. Working (perhaps several jobs), learning the language and setting up home in the community took precedence over politics, and it was all in service of their top priority: creating a better future for their kids.

This week, that seemingly bygone promise of the American dream played out in real time inside Michigan polling centers. Hundreds of the Israel-Hamas war.