Jews Unite Behind Push for Immigration Reform - Ethics and Self-Interest Drive Unusual Nationwide Effort (By Rex Weiner Published June 26, 2013. The Jewish Daily Forward)

Home Sections Blogs Videos Podcasts Yiddish News Jews Unite Behind Push for Immigration Reform Ethics and Self-Interest Drive Unusual Nationwide Effort By Rex Weiner Published June 26, 2013. LOS ANGELES — Rabbi Mark Diamond stood on the border... More

Home Sections Blogs Videos Podcasts Yiddish News Jews Unite Behind Push for Immigration Reform Ethics and Self-Interest Drive Unusual Nationwide Effort By Rex Weiner Published June 26, 2013. LOS ANGELES — Rabbi Mark Diamond stood on the border with Mexico on a brisk February day, alongside the Rev. Alexei Smith of the Catholic Archdiocese, the Rev. Mary Glasspool of the Episcopal Diocese and a host of clergy from Presbyterian, Methodist and United Church of Christ ministries. All of them peered through the corrugated steel wall at the rough miles between countries. The scene evoked thoughts of the old adage Mexicans invoke about their country: “So far from God, so close to the United States!” Diamond, the American Jewish Committee’s Los Angeles director, who arranged the clerics’ 25member fact-finding mission, is hoping to bridge a comparable distance — between a life of promise and a life of uncertainty — for millions of noncitizens in the United States. Less