Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.

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Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies -- policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.

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In the last act of a rich career of public service, Jordan led the commission through the most thorough examination of the impact of U.S. immigration policies of any federal commission to date.

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As I continue to go to different colleges and universities, I am going to continue to provide students with information, demonstrations, and tools to get involved. I am going to continue to develop my craft and find new ways to excite students about immigration. I want to provide them with information that will inspire them to take an interest, vote, and possibly be future activists for an issue that directly affects them.

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NumbersUSA explains how unprecedented border crossings are impacted by effort of President of Mexico

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