The author seems to have some trouble empathizing with people who don't have the education, money, and connections that she does, and who are also being treated cruelly by U.S. immigration authorities (maybe also as a result of misunderstandings, clerical errors, cultural differences, hard-to-foresee technicalities, ...!).
I guess in the author's situation I would also be shocked that immigration restrictions had actually ensnared me, who had never ever encountered any immigration-related troubles before -- even given my opposition to those restrictions, I don't expect them to have a concrete effect on my life.
The author seems to have some trouble empathizing with people who don't have the education, money, and connections that she does, and who are also being treated cruelly by U.S. immigration authorities (maybe also as a result of misunderstandings, clerical errors, cultural differences, hard-to-foresee technicalities, ...!).
I guess in the author's situation I would also be shocked that immigration restrictions had actually ensnared me, who had never ever encountered any immigration-related troubles before -- even given my opposition to those restrictions, I don't expect them to have a concrete effect on my life.