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...cannot be honest, and we are invisible,” Osburn said. “If citizenship really means anything, it means we should have the opportunity to speak up openly and honestly...
...challenge will be selling a fix for the 12 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S. The new immigration bill, to be introduced in the Senate as early as next week by Democrat Ted Kennedy and Republican John McCain, will set most of them on a "path to citizenship." Opponents call that amnesty. Bush has been vague in his support for legalization. But Kennedy says that at a private meeting on Jan. 8, Bush gave him a commitment to back "comprehensive" legislation, which Kennedy believes is a commitment to granting them eventual citizenship...
...defending and attacking the rights of undocumented immigrants in their search for citizenship, stories of the migrants that made it, who carved out their own piece of the pie in America, dominate the discussion. Yet for every migrant that achieves economic success, tens of thousands don’t. For every migrant that makes it into the U.S., hundreds of thousands don’t. For every migrant that decides to make the trip, millions rot in destitution. My experience with Latin American migrants leads me to see each of them enveloped in a sort of pyramid of destruction...
...have two minorities, small in number, that you think can share an affinity—but yet you see conflict,” Gay says. Though Gay moved into her office last fall, she hasn’t yet taught. Next semester she plans to lecture on democratic citizenship, lead a junior seminar on post-Civil War black politics, teach a graduate course on political behavior, and help graduate students research for their dissertations.None of this is new for her. While teaching at Stanford, Gay advised many students. “I think she was unique because many...
...Nadzhafova is now applying to American conservatories, including the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where she hopes to study with Garry Grafman. She could apply to the Moscow Conservatory, where she says she would be accepted. Unfortunately, the Conservatory is only free for Russians and Nadzhafova’s Ukrainian citizenship precludes her from that opportunity. In contrast, the Curtis Institute provides full scholarships to all of its students. However, there’sa catch: the the admission rate is less than 6 percent. Nadzhafova, now in the equivalent of her senior year of high school, is so busy with auditions...