Senator KENNEDY has led so many important fights in the Senate. This may be one of the most historic. We know our immigration system is broken. It just does not work. In my office in Chicago. almost 90 percent of all of the work we do is on immigration. The stories will break your heart. There are people who have come to this country and. for reasons that often cannot be explained. are not in legal status today. As Senator KENNEDY said. approximately half the undocumented people in America arrived here legally. What happened? They were going to school on a visa and they didnt take the necessary course work to be a fulltime student. They lost their legal status. They were parttime students. They started again as fulltime students. and they are undocumented as a result. or they came and stayed beyond their visas or they came into circumstances that. frankly. created family situations so they could not leave: A woman falls in love with an American citizen. is married. and has children. Her husband is an American citizen. all her children are American citizens. but she is not. She is an undocumented person in this country. But let me tell you one story or one group of stories that I think dramatizes some of the injustices of the current system that I think should be addressed. A few years ago.
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