Home state groups jump-start active citizenship in immigrants – Dallas From: dallasnews.com
Tagged: Dallas, TexasPosted on: July 17th, 2008
Mr. Chavarría’s group, made up of people from the central Mexican state of Michoacán, worked on getting high school diplomas for its members via Internet classes in Mexico. His next move is to shift those immigrants into high school equivalency tests in Texas.
“I feel more American than many Americans,” says Mr. Chavarría, a 48-year-old legal permanent resident. “I don’t think being an American is a piece of paper. It is the way you do things and think. I like freedom and free enterprise and what this country stands for.” “*
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