Life for immigrant women in the US can be very rough. Their status is constantly at the forefront of their consciousness. All they want to do is to work to maintain their children but through unfriendly immigration laws these people are kept in the shadows of society being used by farmers and other businesses that rely on this cheap labour source.

Immigrant women and their children have become the face of that struggle in Arizona when many of their working husbands were deported as a result of minor traffic stops or sweeps of their workplaces, said Wilcox. These women, Wilcox said, took the lead as the voices for their families, marching and making their stories heard.

“Because I had the nerve to speak out, I was prosecuted,” Wilcox asserted. She was indicted as part of an investigation by the sheriff, charges that were later dropped. “I suffered a lot, but not half as much as a person with no resources, who has a family torn apart by deportation and who is trying to raise children,” she said.
This story speaks about the trauma to children of parents who work illegally in the USA. They speak about the fear of being separated from their parents, being without their parents.

While Americans benefit from a higher lifestyle because of cheap labour on the one hand, others - many of whom are racially motivated, make the lives of these innocent people hell.

“Immigrant rights is not just a Latino issue, not just a black issue, it’s not even just a women’s issue--it’s a human rights issue,” she said. “Immigrant rights are not just about those of us who come here across the border, but it’s for those who come on a plane, on a boat, those of us whose ancestors came here hundreds of years ago, but are still struggling for equality and justice to this day.”
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/09/as-arizonas-papers-please-law-startsimmigrant-women-speak-out.php

Illegal Immigrants in the US gets compassion from President Obama

  By ADESHINA EMMANUEL

Published: August 9, 2012

WASHINGTON — The work permits that young illegal immigrants can begin applying for next week under a new government policy will let American employers tap a generation of educated workers who have been confined until now to the shadowy corners of the economy, experts on immigration policy say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/illegal-immigrants-see-opportunity-in-work-permit-rule.html?

Pick out the Immigrant Game!

Unbelievable!
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1019018/congressman_creates_%22pick_out_the_immigrant%22_online_game/

Child of Immigrants may have unlocked key to cancer cure

Angela Zhang, is a seventeen year old girl with big ideas. Her ideas are so big that she might change the world of medicine if all goes well because Angela feels she has found a cure for cancer.
Child of Chinese immigrants to the USA Angela began researching a cure for cancer in her spare time. She started reading research by top scientists and faced the challenge of decoding their theories which she did then formulate her own.
Her research was considered to be top-notch by some of the biggest universities in the USA. She won $100,000 for her effort. Reports say that Angela promptly rushed out and bought herself several pairs of shoes like any typical teenager girl but that where it ends. She appears to be unto something huge. Imagine if her idea turns out to be the cure the impact she would have made on mankind's march to conquer the big C which so far no one has been able to do even though the millions collected for cancer research we are still far away from a cure.
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed
Read the full story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/angela-zhang-high-school-_n_1207177.html

Interesting link

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights