"Because there was a pathway to citizenship that allowed me to secure legal status, I had the unbridl..." — Alejandro Mayorkas

It's quite challenging in dealing with a country like Venezuela, where the diplomatic relations, if they exist at all, can be strained.

My mom, given what she went through, was 'Every day is a new one, something beautiful can happen, something tragic can happen, but every day is a new life, and therefore we have an obligation to be better today than we were yesterday and tomorrow than we are today.' That was her.

Sometimes we do not live up to our highest ideals.

In a world where unanimity is so difficult to achieve, there is one thing that - as to which there is unanimity, and that is the need for comprehensive immigration reform.