WE ARE HOME by Ray Suarez (Latino Americans) is subtitled "Becoming American in the 21st Century: an Oral History." When reading this text, I was struck by how at least some Americans seem to easily forget that we are a nation of immigrants – according to the most recent Census report, 13.9 percent, or roughly one in seven of us are foreign born. That means nearly everyone would have friends and neighbors, even family, amongst these 46.2 million people. As Suarez notes, it is even more astounding when one realizes that a quarter of Americans are foreign-born themselves or the children of foreign born residents. In WE ARE HOME, he shares the stories of several immigrants, including Samir (from Yemen, but grew up in Kenya and won a lottery for his family to come to the USA), Margaret (from Scotland who met her husband in Iran and settled in the US after that revolution), and Jaime (from El Salvador whose father applied for asylum). Suarez weaves in facts about historical changes like the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and other statistics although the preview of his text sadly lacks any notes or bibliography. Overall, I think Suarez is trying to humanize and personalize the immigrant experience, but he takes a winding path to make key points about how immigrants contribute to American life. With an aging population, we need each other more than ever. One example is the March 2024 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges which projected the shortage of doctors in the United States to be 86,000 by 2036. Even the Wall Street Journal has run several articles concerned about nursing shortages and new State Department proposals which could limit the number of au pairs allowed to work here. Hopefully, there are stories in WE ARE HOME and from resources like Pew Research Center and Migration Policy Institute that can contribute to a fact-based sharing of information on the important, but divisive, topic of immigration reform.