Why Citizenship Matters: Getting to the Bottom Line
This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to participate in a half-day workshop on immigration reform , sponsored by the AFL-CIO and the Economic Policy Institute . Held at the AFL-CIO's headquarters in Washington, D.C., the focus of the session was on why a road map to citizenship for America's undocumented residents is an essential component of reform, a topic that is increasingly relevant as certain House Republicans argue for creating a legalization process that would exclude citizenship as the ultimate endpoint.
