Good Trouble for Immigrants Begins With Loving Our Neighbors

“Good trouble” is often associated with protest and disruption, but at its heart, it is about moral courage—the willingness to act when love requires more of us than silence. When centered on immigrants, good trouble is not about chaos or defiance. It is about choosing care in a world that too often withholds it.To love one’s neighbor is simple since all are from various parts of the world.

Loving the Neighbor We Are Told to Fear

Immigrants frequently become symbols in debates rather than people in our communities. Yet the call to love our neighbor does not come with conditions. It does not ask for citizenship status, language fluency, or economic usefulness.Choosing to see immigrants as neighbors—co-workers, parents, worshipers, artists, caregivers—is itself a form of good trouble. It disrupts narratives built on fear and replaces them with attention, presence, shared humanity, and love.

Care as a Form of Love

Care is not passive. With unjust systems, care becomes love.- Providing welcome where exclusion is normalized
- Listening where voices are ignored
- Offering dignity where labels reduce people to problems

Immigrants often practice this care first—supporting families, building communities, and sustaining neighborhoods. Everyone should set the example of treating them with the same care they extend to others, they create welcoming attitudes that others should exemplify.

Photography as Neighbor-Love

Photography has a unique role in this kind of good trouble. A photograph can slow us down. It can make us look longer, see more clearly, and recognize ourselves in the face of another.Photographing immigrants with care—without spectacle or stereotype—is an act of neighbor-love. It says: You are seen. You belong. Your story matters. Images rooted in dignity challenge indifference more quietly than slogans, yet often more powerfully.

Good Trouble In Love

Loving our neighbors does not always feel disruptive—until it confronts systems that depend on separation and silence. When love insists on proximity, fairness, and shared responsibility, it unsettles what is comfortable. That is the good trouble immigrants embody: not by seeking attention, but by living faithfully, caring deeply, and genuinely contributing to the community. Communities are reminded of who they are called to be everyday. They are our neighbor. We can be a voice for them.All should stand in the gap for immigrants and make good trouble.