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You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.

We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.