My best friend from childhood is a devoted Trump supporter. He sends me roughly 10 Instagram Trump-focused reels a day, many followed by impassioned notes imploring me to vote for him for the sake of my daughters.

At least a few of those reels are about undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes in the U.S. You need to vote Trump to keep your family safe, he writes.

When I look in my daughters’ eyes, I see young women who have less robust reproductive rights than their mother did growing up.

I don’t see illegal immigrants lurking around every corner trying to hurt my family.

Here in Houston, we are neighbors with all kinds of immigrants and I’m sure many of them or their family members are undocumented. We go to school together, we go to work together, we eat at the same restaurants, we exercise at the same gym, we go to the same parks and museums.

My friend doesn’t write me much about climate change. As far as I know he doesn’t see it as a campaign issue.

But our family does. As someone who follows viticulture carefully, I am all too aware of the havoc climate change is creating in my professional community. And we live in a hurricane and tornado corridor with an increased threat of natural disaster all around us.

Reproductive rights and climate change action are two issues that Trump has opposed and Kamala has embraced. Those are the two top issues for us in this election.

But another overarching issue is the hateful and often overtly racist rhetoric that Trump and some of his followers summon when advocating for their policies. We do not want our children to grow up in a world where American leaders use division and intellectual violence as political expedients.

My vote was cast for the candidate I believe will best protect and bolster the reproductive rights and climate resources my children will need to navigate the world and their lives.

Their parents may not be what Trump perceives as ideal Americans. But they, like their parents, were born in the U.S.A., too. Please vote Kamala for them.