mr. hernandez is her father. surely you must understand how it is with other cultures. i do understand.nd i don't like it. you don't have to. it is his family. you keep interfering and it will only cause trouble for maria. we'll see. hi, maria. hey, rosa, look who's here. maria ! are you back in school ? no, i just had to deliver a dress to a customer who lives just around the corner. so, i thought i'd stop by and say hello. won't your father mind that you take time away from the sewing machine just to see a friend ? please, don't be angry at papa. he feels very badly about having to do this. could have fooled me. you must understand. business has been very bad lately. one of our sewing machines broke down and we couldn't afford to fix it so he had to let one of our seamstresses go. and taking you out of school is going to solve all that ? it'll help. it won't help you finish high school. rosa. maria, with your brain you could be a doctor, a scientist or a teacher. i'm going to have to forget about that at least for now. why not do what i do ? you want her to run around delivering food

mr. hernandez. [applause] fernandez: welcome to boston. i think you guys are in for a treat. we have a great panel. penny bradshaw please step appeared. on --chacon,ck please come. we did have an immigration .napshot drawn up a flyer that gives us some basic facts. some of the flyers are located here on this table. we will have a debate with pertinent questions. with regards to the history and employment. we will give you guys the chance to meet with us directly about any questions that you might have concerning our immigration system. hopefully 10 or 15 minutes prior to the conclusion of the program. i would like to start with ms. bradshaw. bradshaw: i practice labor and employment law. i work out of winston-salem, north carolina. employers get more visas and green cards for their foreign workers. as we consider the topic of immigration reform, we should look at what broken in the existing system. as we talk about some of the challenges we need to keep in about 8t there are million undocumented workers here in the united states. the starting point is to get a work visa in th