“When one family member cannot safely travel, work or access health care, all family members suffer. The opposite is also true. When a family member is able to shift from living without legal status in the U.S. to getting legal status, the lives of the entire family improve.”
Kristina Fullerton Rico co-wrote “How Biden’s executive order to protect immigrant spouses of citizens from deportation will benefit their families and communities,” which was published in The Conversation.
Kristina is a PhD candidate who will defend her dissertation in August. Her dissertation is titled, “Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life.”