My family and I immigrated to the US several decades ago from Eastern Europe when i was a kid. There are two comments that my T has made (at different times) that I can't let go of and they make me questioning continuing to work with her.

Comment 1:

T: I just want to check, is your family stressed about Trump being in office?

Me: Why specifically? (Because it was a question out of nowhere and we never discuss politics)

T: Because he's cracking down on illegal immigrants.

Me: My family is here legally.

T: Oh ok, I wasn't sure if they were here legally. Good.

Comment 2: (discussing my neverending anxiety over school that has been destroying my life)

T: You need to drop out. I know it's hard for you because you're the first person in your ffamily to have gone to college.

Me: I'm not the first person in my family to go to college. Almost everyone in my family went to college.

T: Oh, I'd assumed none of them had went to college.

Me: No, they did. My parents even have master's degrees.

T: I didn't know that. I had just assumed none of them had a college education.

The more I think about this, the more I see these as microaggressions and I don't feel comfortable working with someone who has these automatic ideas about immigrants and assumes they are here illegally and don't have educations.