Mr. Jim Albright This is Me

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   Published on: 2/11/2008   Last Visited: 6/3/2008

   Issues of immigration reform mean a lot to Jim Albright who works closely with migrant workers and their families in his role as director of the diocese's Office of Migrant Ministry on the Eastern Shore.
   
   So it is only natural that he would seek political support for justice for immigrants when he met with Delegate Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. of the Eastern Shore on Catholic Advocacy Day held Jan. 28 in Richmond.
   
   Mr. Albright urged Del.
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   "The delegate's take was not supportive," Mr. Albright told The Catholic Virginian.He basically said ‘why should a taxpayer pay to allow an undocumented child to take up a seat at in-state tuition when a constituent's son or daughter couldn't get in?'
   
   "The reality of it is that these kids have grown up here and some are top-notch students," Mr. Albright countered."Federal and state taxes are taken out of their parents' paychecks.
   
   "We want their sweat equity, it seems, but we don't want their kids in our state colleges and their wives in our clinics."
   
   Del. Lewis told Mr. Albright that he felt immigration reform was a federal government issue and that because the federal government failed to enact immigration reform, the states are being harsh.