“One more minute” I told myself for the hundredth time that night. At 2:45 AM, Donald Trump had 266 electoral votes; only four more was needed to win the election. My page refreshed; Trump won the presidential election. A shiver went up my spine; the idea that Trump was going to win was something I had joked about weeks prior to the election. I grew scared for not just the immigrants residing here, but also America. I could not comprehend how people could vote for the very embodiment of hatred and discrimination. The United States has progressed dramatically; with this election, everything appears to have unraveled. Equality has always been a concept that appears unobtainable. How this generation chooses to confront it is one of the most challenging
