Linda Chavez: Immigration policy is the problem, not immigrants

“Political analyst Linda Chavez, speaker at The Victoria College Lyceum Lecture Series, said her background in education, journalism and politics enables her to approach dispassionately the subject of immigration reform. She said the issue often lends to debate that “sheds more heat than light” on Capitol Hill, and which also has affected her personally.

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While much has happened in Chavez’s life during the 11 years between her Lyceum lecture in 1995 and her speech Thursday - including being honored in 2000 by the Library of Congress as a “Living Legend,” being nominated by President George W. Bush for Secretary of Labor, and being forced to withdraw her name after it surfaced in the media that she had employed an illegal immigrant (Chavez said she had assisted the woman, not employed her) - Chavez’s message on Thursday remained similar to that of her speech in 1995.”

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