Is Immigration Reform Dead Or Alive?

By GRIT TV

July 1, 2009

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Immigration reform is hardly the front page issue it was one year ago even though thousands of immigrants end up in detention centers every year. The facts on the ground haven't changed, so where does the movement stand? And is there a real possibility for reform under Obama?

Today Roberto Lovato, Associate Editor at New America Media, Mallika Dutt, Executive Director of Breakthrough, Ravi Ragbir who spent two years in immigration detention and is a member of Families for Freedom, and Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America's Voice on the state of immigration reform.

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