The only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate reflects on the shattering impact of the previous administration’s family separation agenda and explains why family reunification must be the humane cornerstone of our nation’s immigration policy.
Adapted from Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono.I was seven and my brother Roy was nine on the afternoon in March of 1955 when we left our home in rural Japan.
With our mother’s palms resting lightly on our backs, we climbed the gangway onto a hulking iron ship that would carry us across the Pacific Ocean to a new life in Hawaii.
I was already missing my three-year-old brother, Wayne. It had torn our mother’s heart to leave him behind with our grandparents in Fukushima.
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