There's so many visa categories, we're running out of alphabet letters. There's lots of nooks and crannies and wrinkles. First, we have a very complicated, convoluted immigration law. KRIKORIAN: It's the kind of thing that happens for a couple reasons. MARTIN: Now, as I said, I know you have an opinion on this debate, but before I ask you about your opinion, I wanted to ask you just about the facts. Thanks so much for joining us once again. He's with us now to give his perspective and also to help us explain why so many people are in limbo. He's a well-known voice favoring a more restrictive immigration policy. Mark Krikorian heads the Center for Immigration Studies. Now, we want to hear another perspective. We told you about a burn victim in need of long-term medical treatment and an illegal farm worker who went on to become a respected brain surgeon. MARTIN: We also told you this week about a seeker of political asylum who met her husband, married here and had a child before she was actually forced to leave the country. I know and I believe in my heart that I will become a legal resident and definitely a U.S. I consider myself a Californian and even - you know, I think of my situation as a temporary problem. But, for me, I am as American as any other American can be. However, even though I was conceived here and I was just, you know, unfortunately born in a different country, their theory doesn't apply to me. MARIA LUNA: They argue that a life is born at conception. In Maria's rather unusual case, both her parents were legal residents, as was her grandmother, who brought her to the United States when she was just three days old. She's one of the thousands of young people brought to this country as a child when they were too young to make a decision about it. In the course of the week, we met a so-called dream kid named Maria Luna. ![]() That's our Backtalk segment and it's in just a few minutes.īut first, the last in a series of conversations we've been having about immigration in this country, specifically, what it's like to be in limbo, in that middle space between legal and illegal or to be related to somebody who is. Coming up, we hear what you have to say about some of our recent conversations. I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
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