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They Can't Take Away my Dignity
Last edited Tue Jul 9, 2013, 03:56 AM - Edit history (1)
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Photo of the Day: Immigration is about families
In a protest, Renata Teodoro, right, and her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported in 2007, met at a Mexican border fence.
The young adults are part of the movement of immigrants who grew up in this country without legal status who call themselves Dreamers. Their parents traveled to the Mexican side of the fence from Brazil, Colombia and Guadalajara, Mexico, seeing their children in person for the first time in many years.
The meeting, under a searing borderlands sun, was a new piece of the highly personal political theater that young immigrants have used to dramatize their support for a bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system. Hours before the encounter here, President Obama spoke at the White House to urge Congress to move quickly to pass the bill. Suggesting the growing influence of the youth movement in the debate, the president framed his remarks — both literally and politically — with Dreamers.
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“This is not an abstract debate,” Mr. Obama said. “This is about incredible young people who understand themselves to be Americans, who have done everything right but have still been hampered in achieving their American dream.”
The meeting, under a searing borderlands sun, was a new piece of the highly personal political theater that young immigrants have used to dramatize their support for a bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system. Hours before the encounter here, President Obama spoke at the White House to urge Congress to move quickly to pass the bill. Suggesting the growing influence of the youth movement in the debate, the president framed his remarks — both literally and politically — with Dreamers.
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“This is not an abstract debate,” Mr. Obama said. “This is about incredible young people who understand themselves to be Americans, who have done everything right but have still been hampered in achieving their American dream.”
What's the agenda?
Boy, there sure is a lot of political noise out there these days! But beyond all that President Obama has an agenda he's working on. Anyone paying attention?
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http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/07/whats-agenda.html
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and TOD!
mahalo 
BOG 
she~
I am crying right now. However, that's not a bad thing.
When you stop crying, you stop feeling. When you stop feeling, you die inside.
BOG To us all, to our dignity, our pride. We can and will make a difference.
to make a difference, she~ Guaranteed~ 
BOG
can't forget them. 
that I watched when I came home.
Simply beautiful. Thank you for the reminder of that day.
"Forward in celebration and joy" Yes.
freshwest
