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Almost 40 years ago – a decade before I was even born – my first family members to arrive in the United States from Jamaica were undocumented in this country. It took an act of Congress to change the trajectory for my family, provide legal status, and enable me to migrate to the United States […]https://emergeamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Wilkins-Headshot.jpg600900