How is it that 1,000,000 undocumented immigrants from across the world entered the U.S. each year from starting in 2019 and filtered across the country, found work, and built stable lives in stable communities? That despite the increase in border police and physical barriers? How does this wave of immigrants compare to previous immigrants? Why are they so necessary in U.S. North American life? Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, for fifty years in Oregon fighting for immigrants, including co-founding and part of the leadership of PCUN, Oregon’s tree planters and farm workers union. After a successful generational transition, he splits his time in Woodburn consulting and working on projects and in Washington D. C. developing national immigrants’ rights policy and lobbying with the national Hispanic affairs organization, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM).
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