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Nydia Velazquez Promises Renewed Fight for Immigration Reform
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez told an audience of nearly 500 people in Flushing on Thursday night that she will continue to push for immigration reform in Congress during the post-election lame duck session. The head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus told the cheering audience at the MinKwon Center for Community Action, the leading Korean American civil rights organization, that there will be a “very small window of opportunity” after the elections and she told them to “come down to Washington because it is very lonely for us down there sometimes.”
Velazquez warned that “whatever happens in the elections, we have to be energized to work to pass the DREAM Act or comprehensive immigration reform right after.” Like many, she said she regretted that the political sphere had “become so divisive,” adding that immigration reform “isn’t about ideology, it’s about keeping families together.” She told the audience that to pass anything, “We will need every human being and every soul to come to Washington and visit Congressional offices, send e-mails, and make phone calls.”
Following her speech, S.J. Jung, the chair of the board of MinKwon echoed Velasquez saying that “The politics of hate blinds people. America is better than that and America is bigger than that.” He added that his group got started in the civil rights struggle 26 years earlier. “Vision got us started, but fire kept us going.”
Honored at Thursday night’s event, in addition to Velazquez, were Pyong Gap Min, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College, Rev. Ian White Mahler, pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, and the United We DREAM Network of students working for the DREAM Act.
Feature image courtesy of the MinKwon Center.
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