As constant and controversial as conversations around immigration in Washington have become, many lawmakers weighing in don’t have direct personal connections to the issues they’re debating. Delia Ramirez, 39, has lived them her entire life.
Delia Ramirez, left, with her husband, Boris Hernandez, center, and Ramirez's mother. Thanks to our sponsors:“It is time — it is past time that we deliver on the promise that we have made to our Dreamers,” she says.
That’s far easier said than done, as decades of debate over immigration reform on Capitol Hill clearly show.She Draws Strength From Her Family’s Story Ramirez says the story of her mom’s journey from Guatemala to the United States infused her childhood in Chicago, where Ramirez was born. “But that is the journey, right?” Ramirez says. “Maybe not the Congress part as often as it should be, but the journey of so many people and so many children of immigrants who contribute and do so much for this country.”“I am clear that anyone willing to risk dying, starving or even being raped in the long journey through desert, cold and tunnels is crossing because they feel like there is no other solution to their situation.
“It was a very emotional moment,” she says. And the first thing she did after the bill passed, she says, was call her mom and share the news.
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