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Yave Begnet

Yave Begnet is an immigration attorney in New York City. In law school, he studied international law, trade, and human rights. He spent time in school studying and working in Latin America.

The way citizens treat migrants provides insight into the way we view our position in our communities, both local and global. If once, all politics was local, now all politics is global. Goods, capital, and ideas travel freely and speedily around the world—then why not the people who make those products, earn that capital, and create those ideas?

By recognizing that each of us may one day be a migrant, we can recognize that our common humanity transcends arbitrary accidents of geography. This realization can lead us toward policies that benefit migrants and citizens alike in the best tradition of this migrant nation.

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