Julian Castro Takes Immigration Fight Nation Wide

By Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News

MIAMI — Though fast becoming a national spokesman for immigration reform, when Julián Castro addressed activists, their benefactors and so-called DREAMers here Thursday night, he made a plea to fix a broken system as the mayor of a city where undocumented immigrants exist in the shadows.

“Unlike some folks in D.C., I don’t have the luxury of sitting 2,000 miles away, far away from the problem and railing against it,” Castro said. “My colleagues and I in cities across the country have to deal with the practical consequences of our broken immigration system.”

He delivered the keynote address to the 17th annual Americans for Immigrant Justice dinner.

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