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 problemsImmigrants 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.
