{"id":9435,"date":"2010-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/20\/seattle-s-pramila-jayapal-leads-push-for-immigration-reform\/"},"modified":"2010-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"seattle-s-pramila-jayapal-leads-push-for-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/20\/seattle-s-pramila-jayapal-leads-push-for-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s Pramila Jayapal Leads Push For Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/pacificnw\/2012474506_pacificpjayapal08.html\">seattletimes.nwsource.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, August 2010: Pramila Jayapal locks arms with other protesters in a Seattle skyscraper to block access to federal immigration courts. Jayapal is a strong voice, says U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, in the national immigration debate &#8212; a long way from her days as a Wall Street investment banker.<\/p>\n<p>Now Jayapal is leading the state&#8217;s largest immigrant-advocacy group, OneAmerica, which she built from scratch. Jayapal&#8217;s standing is all the more notable because she&#8217;s a south Asian woman leading a largely Latino movement in a state not particularly relevant to the national argument.<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s more clear-eyed, several people say, than most activists, mixing soaring ideals with business-school pragmatism. &#8220;She would love to embrace everyone from every culture and status into the U.S. pretty much unfettered,&#8221; says Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin, a Republican. &#8220;However, it&#8217;s not realistic, and she recognizes there has to be some give-and-take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We face a moral crisis, she argues, akin to the African-American struggle for civil rights. &#8220;An unjust law is no law,&#8221; she says, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s famous words from a jail in Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, August 2010: Pramila Jayapal locks arms with other protesters in a Seattle skyscraper to block access,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}