In the last few days, the senators from Texas joined some of their other anti-immigrant colleagues to slow down the drafting of an immigration reform law.
He's in a relationship with a co-worker named Carole (Sandrine Bonnaire), an immigrant from Poland; his colleague from home, Étienne (Bibi Tanga), a former professor who fled with them, is a regular presence in the household.
But since her appointment by Gov. David A. Paterson last week to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ms. Gillibrand has found herself besieged by immigrant advocates and Democratic colleagues who have cast her as out of step with a majority of the state, with its big cities and sprawling immigrant enclaves.
As an immigrant, she left behind colleagues in another country.
She urges more border security, for example, while celebrating the achievements of immigrants and lambasting Republican colleagues who think deportation is the answer to everything.None of this, however, will help Republicans win the White House so long as they insist on keeping 11m Latinos in the shadows.
Under the proposal set forth by Menendez and his colleagues, undocumented immigrants would be allowed to register with the government, pay a fine, and then be given a probationary legal status allowing them to work.
THEY may be preparing for a vacation in Europe, trying to communicate with colleagues abroad or immigrant clients at home or unlocking the skills, learned in college, that have retreated to an inaccessible part of the brain.
But the idea that the city's police force is incurably racist looks hard to uphold: the cop who this week pleaded guilty to torturing Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, was shopped by disgusted colleagues.
Looking back at the window across the cityscape, I see reflections of my past and present- my immigrant family, my friends, my colleagues.
We had been told beforehand that we could bring a total of 5 people, so in addition to Tighe Barry of the CODEPINK staff, we had invited two colleagues from the immigrant rights community since DHS is responsible for the unprecedented number of deportations (an astounding 1,100 people a day) occurring every day under President Obama, dubbed the "Deporter-in-Chief".
In a recent register-based cohort study from Spain, Cruz and colleagues found that immigrant patients were more likely than native patients to discontinue AD treatment during follow-up, and nearly half of the immigrant patients discontinued treatment within the first month [ 26].
