In the last week of African-American History Month, ENGLISH @ WORK recognizes three individuals who worked hard to move America forward on the issue of immigration.
 In 2012, President Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood   Arrivals program, which stopped deportation of young undocumented  immigrants that match a certain set of criteria.
The son of an immigrant, Obama has pledged to make comprehensive immigration reform one of the top priorities of his second term as president.
 The Reverend Jessie Jackson has been a supporter of immigration reform for decades. At the 2012 immigration reform march in Washington, D.C., Jackson quoted the Langston Hughes poem, “I, Too, Sing America,” likening the African-American experience to that of working immigrants.
 Barbara Jordan supported the addition of language minorities to the Voting Rights Act during its multiple renewals. Language minorities provisions ensure that speakers of Spanish, Chinese, and Tagolog, among other languages, have equal access in the voting process.
President Bill Clinton appointed Barbara Jordan to chair the Commission on Immigration Reform in 1993. Jordan acknowledged that there is a lot of “contradictory testimony, shaky statistics, and a great deal of honest confusion” around the immigration issue.