Citizens for Immigrants

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"Our dreams are the same: We want the best for our families"

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Rick Covington

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“Our dreams are the same: We want the best for our families” says Rick Covington about his friend Elizabeth Ruiz at the National Immigrant Integration Conference. These two friends—one an undocumented Latina mother in deportation hearings and the other a 74-year-old white Navy retiree—have thrown themselves into building support for immigration reform in their community. Elizabeth and Rick have spoken at countless events, gone door-to-door to educate neighbors, led voter registration drives and been arrested in civil disobedience actions. Together they have sparked a chain reaction of ordinary people in Washington State standing up for immigrants. See and listen to more from the Seattle event here.