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Every Day Resistance

During the Republican primary in Florida, Mitt Romney announced to an audience that his strategy on immigration was “self-deportation.” Many people in the audience were puzzled, some laughed and others applauded. But what did Romney really mean when he proposed a strategy of self-deportation? Delmy...

We Belong Together: Why I’m going to Birmingham, AL

I am excited and honored to be joining the Women’s Human Rights Delegation in Birmingham, Alabama this week as part of the We Belong Together campaign. I am going for my grandmother and my mother. Because of them, I have the privilege to be an advocate for, to listen and speak out against our...

Standing with Women and Children In Alabama

On March 21st and 22nd, I will join the We Belong Together Women’s Human Rights Delegation to Alabama to lend a voice for infants and toddlers in these efforts to protect immigrant families. Today in America, over 20% of children under age six have immigrant parents and approximately 93% of those...

Alabama Bound

I’ve never been to Alabama and yet it has featured prominently in my personal narrative. Just days before my 12th birthday in January 1963, George Wallace was sworn in for his first term as Governor of Alabama. The words from his inaugural address rang well beyond Alabama's borders: “Segregation...