Posts by Rachel Perić
Congress at an impasse, communities not
As Congress remains at an impasse on immigration, the lives of millions of Americans hang in the balance, and the very idea of America as an immigrant nation is being challenged at the highest levels. While Congress yet again failed to protect DACA this week, the number of communities large and small, rural and urban,…
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Family history makes welcoming personal In 1949, my grandparents – both Holocaust survivors who had lost not only their homes, but also nearly everyone they loved in the world – arrived in New York City to begin new lives. Of the little they brought with them, the most precious thing was my mother, not yet…
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