Don't shortchange immigrant families

In today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the paper’s editorial board highlights Senator Mazie K. Hirono’s fight for families as she works on immigration reform legislation:

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono has rightly expressed concern about the Senate version's intent to "mitigate the harm to families caused by eliminating the sibling category of visas and the provisions that affect immigrants' access to the country's safety net programs."

She said her emigration as a young girl from Japan to Hawaii showed her "how important it is to support immigrant families in order for them to succeed in this country."

Read the entire piece here: http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorialspremium/saeditorialspremium/20130430_Dont_shortchange_immigrant_families.html?id=205337021