Comprehensive Immigration Reform: It’s About Keeping Families Together
Jim Zamora
Teddy Vallejos has a personal stake in reforming America’s contradictory immigration laws.
While Vallejos, am SEIU 1000 Bargaining Unit 1 member, continues working for the Department of General Services in West Sacramento, her husband has been forced to return to his native Mexico where he will likely spend the next 8-10 years waiting for approval to legally join his wife in the United States unless the rules change.
Vallejos, whose husband had been living and working in California without proper documents when they married, says her experience with the immigration system has spurred her activism both in her workplace and on the immigration issue.