I think that one systemic injustice that I witness is the availability of green cards and the American immigration system. My aunt who has lived here for nearly 14 years is still on a work-visa, despite her standing as a doctor which is a traditionally well-respected job in American culture. The consistent delays or inability to win a ‘lottery’ of who get a green card speaks to a larger injustice regarding immigration. The Cato institute has a great list of problems with the immigration system here: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cato-institute/ . The article has a great list of how the immigration system is extremely restrictive in its admittance and doesn’t seem to follow any common sense in terms of how it selects who can get residence or other levels of immigration status. Once in America there are many other systemic injustices for immigrants, often placing harmful stereotypes or keeping them from jobs or education. An example of this is how foreign university degrees are often looked down upon even if they come from universities of extremely high value in the country where they were awarded. This is even seen in Persepolis when Marjane’s parents consider immigrating to the U.S. and her father says essentially “I can become a taxi driver and you a cleaning lady?” as to their future in the U.S. The structural oppression that is often seen through job choices has roots in the immigration policy again, often jobs won’t admit immigrants due to concerns about visas or immigration paper work, SpaceX is famous for hiring mostly US-citizens as US laws are in place to require immense amounts of paperwork and are often not accessible for immigrants. Overall, I think that immigration in the U.S. is often a slow and tedious process. Many people are always for ‘legal’ immigration, but the processes and laws surround those that come to this country for a dream and do it ‘legally’ often leave them in places where they are forced to give up so much of their past and kept from rising to the levels that they are actually at due to system injustices.
John Oliver has a great Last Week Tonight episode that sums a lot of the points regarding ‘legal’ immigration that I talk about here as well as many others, and I think if you are interested is a great follow up to start thinking more about immigration.