Human Resources: Rethinking the Immigration Debate

by Alejandra Campoverdi on December 5, 2007 in Opinion

When I was a young girl growing up in Southern California, my grandmother and I drove past them every morning on the way to elementary school.  They lined both sides of 4th Street, huddling for warmth in the early morning mist, eyes scanning the oncoming traffic.  I watched them countless times, but it never occurred to me to ask what they were doing.  One day, I finally did, and my grandmother told me that the men were trying to find work.

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