Emigrating to the USA – David Haldane

April 13, 2026

A Filipino Successor to a California Legend?

By David Haldane April 13, 2026 I once went four years without eating a single grape. Which was quite a sacrifice, given how […]

April 5, 2026

Filipinos in the Desert: Rising Together in Filipino Town

By David Haldane April 5, 2026 Not a place but a movement. That’s how one of its founders described what appears to be […]

March 16, 2026

An Alien in My Own Hometown

By David Haldane March 16, 2026 It began as a misunderstanding. “Sweet N’ Low?” the woman in the coffee shop wanted to know. All […]

January 5, 2026

Born to Be Free? — The Case Against Birthright Citizenship

By David Haldane Jan. 5, 2026 I was born in America. Which makes me a US citizen. My parents were citizens too: Dad by […]

June 1, 2025

Camping Out in Trump’s America

By David Haldane June 2, 2025 The tension began at the airport. We had watched recent events unfolding in America from our veranda overlooking the […]

April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025 I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]

November 25, 2024

Migrant Fears

By David Haldane Nov. 25, 2024 The anxiety was thick. “People are scared,” Romeo Hebron said. “We’re not sure what’s going to happen.” The […]

July 21, 2024

Mail-Order Brides

By David Haldane June 22, 2024 The tropes were familiar in the early days of our marriage. People said we had hooked up so Ivy […]

February 5, 2024

Getting to America

By David Haldane Feb. 5, 2024 It was a moment of uncertainty. Would we get the smiling, easy-going immigration officer who seemed like a […]

September 7, 2023

Reverse Diaspora

By David Haldane Sept. 7, 2023 The videos made my stomach churn. They depicted water literally gushing down the streets, almost overturning cars. “Oh […]

December 1, 2022

Gringos Get Gone!

By David Haldane December 1, 2022 The irony is stunning. Mexicans want Americans to stay away. And, if they’re already in Mexico, well, they’d […]

September 30, 2021

Never Enough

By David Haldane Sept. 30, 2021 The more I know about him, the less I like him. His name is Jose Antonio Vargas; a Filipino […]