Immigration Reform: Political and Humanitarian Concerns
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Experts address the recent surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border from humanitarian and political perspectives. Elizabeth Kennedy, a Fulbright Fellow working in El Salvador with returned youth, illuminates the violence that the children are attempting to escape. Antonio Gonzalez, the president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, makes a case for immigration reform from the Democratic perspective, followed by Republican Hector Barreto, former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration under George W. Bush and current chairman of the Latino Coalition.
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