Look, I think that the issue here is that we have mistaken--and the folks on the other side might be missing--is that this is no paradise, that people work awfully hard on the American dream, and all they want is an opportunity.
Garcia highlights the hard work of immigrants and their desire for opportunities.
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I come from a rich culture in the Pueblo country in Ohkay Owingeh, and so I think it is important that I didn't learn all of the things that I knew about social life and culture and language and all of that in an education setting.
That is the binding contract the United States entered into with Tribes, and from those treaties and other laws has arisen the United States' sacred trust responsibility to the Indian Nations and our peoples.
What makes America special is that people come here, they assimilate, they become fully American with all of the rights and responsibilities that citizenship bestows.
It is time we stopped pretending to fix our broken immigration system. We are sitting here rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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