Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

By: James Porter*

When you sit down to the dinner table this Thanksgiving, what will you say you are thankful for?  Friends? Family? Health?  Something that may slip your mind though is being thankful for your  U.S. citizenship.  For almost 2 million young people in this country, this is not something they have ever been given the chance to be thankful for.  They were brought to the U.S. as children and many do not know a life outside the U.S.