an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

It's not just immigrant rights that are at stake anymore, it's all citizens' rights that are at stake.

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

It would be impossible without immigrant labor. People can no longer turn their faces.

Today you.... tomorrow me.

I planted him in this country like a flag

As immigrants fly across oceans they shed their old clothing because clothes maketh the man and new ones help ease the transition. Men's clothing has less international variations; the change is not so drastic. But those women who are not used to wearing western clothes find themselves in a dilemma. If they focus on integration, convenience and conformity they have to sacrifice habit, style and self-perception.

Kam glanced back at Zoe. “Me and Saul are close.” Zoe smiled. “We are all Americans here. This is how this great nation was built--all for one and one for all.” Kam looked at Saul and rattled her head. “Wasn’t that the Three Musketeers?” –Michael Benzehabe, from the novel Unassimilated

And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void.