In this Keynotes event, Nicole Salgado ‘98, an advocate for environmental conservation and migrants’ rights based in Querétaro, México, and journalist Nathaniel Hoffman ‘99 based in Boise, Idaho, will discuss their chronicle of a highly underreported aspect of our country’s punitive immigration system: the often insurmountable process faced by couples of mixed immigration status.
Their 2013 book,
“Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders,” documents the experiences of six couples, including Ms. Salgado’s first-person account of life in the U.S. with her husband while he was undocumented, her tortured decision to leave the country with him, starting
over together in Mexico, and their 15 years of exile.
Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Salgado will examine how little has changed policy-wise in the years since their book’s publication. They will also highlight current proposals for legislative reform that could provide relief to millions of U.S. citizen partners and families of undocumented immigrants who are languishing in legal limbo, driven underground, exiled abroad, and/or separated.
Views shared in this program are exclusively the authors’.
