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- Frank_Sharry abstract "Frank Sharry was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut by anItalian-American mother and an Irish-American father. He graduated fromPrinceton University in 1978, majoring in History and American Studies.He was captain of the soccer team his junior and senior year, served asa Resident Advisor his senior year and was active in student protestefforts regarding the role of private and selective eating clubs incollege life and university investments in firms operating in a SouthAfrica ruled by apartheid.After graduation he taught secondary school for a year at the UnitedWorld College of Southeast Asia in Singapore. He left to work for theAmerican Council for Nationalities Service (ACNS) in Singapore andIndonesia to assist with the resettlement of boat refugees fleeingwar-torn Vietnam in search of temporary safe haven in Indonesia.He returned to the United States in 1980 and worked for ACNS in FortChaffee, Arkansas, helping to resettle Cuban refugees who arrived fromthe Cuban Port of Mariel. He then moved to the ACNS main office in NewYork to direct a special nationwide resettlement program for CubanRefugees, and then was promoted to oversee the nationwide resettlementprogram in 27 cities for refugees from Southeast Asia, Africa andelsewhere. In 1986 Sharry left ACNS and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where hebecame the Executive Director of Centro Presente, a local organizationthat worked with Central Americans who had fled civil war and humanrights violations in their countries of origin to seek safe haven in thegreater Boston area. While there he helped to found the MassachusettsImmigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition, a statewide immigrantadvocacy organization.In 1990 he was hired to become the Executive Director of the NationalImmigration Forum, one of the nation's premier immigration policyorganizations based in Washington, DC. It has been directly involved inevery major legislative policy debate related to immigration since its founding in 1982. At the Forum he emerged as one of theleading pro-immigrant spokespeople, appearing frequently on televisionand radio, being quoted regularly in print publications, and addressingaudiences throughout the country. During his tenure at the Forum, hehelped win relief for Central American and Haitian refugees, protectedfamily reunification, and promoted a comprehensive overhaul of thenation's immigration system that would simultaneously reduce illegalimmigration through smart enforcement, provide a path to legal statusand citizenship to undocumented immigrants in the U.S., and reform thelegal immigration system. In 2008 he left the Forum to become the founder and Executive Directorof America's Voice, an organization that serves as the communicationsarm of the immigration reform movement. Since its inception America'sVoice has become a visible and vocal advocate for comprehensiveimmigration reform, the DREAM Act (a measure that would enable youngpeople who immigrated to America illegally to attend college or serve in themilitary as a way to earn citizenship), and administrative changes aimedat relieving the sense of siege experienced in immigrant communitiesthroughout America as local and federal enforcement continues to beexpanded. Sharry has also been featured in the documentary film series "HowDemocracy Works Now" by filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini.The series features 12 films about the immigration debate in Americafrom 2000 through 2007. The last film in the series was aired on HBO inMarch 2010 under the title "Senators' Bargain." It shows Sharry workingwith both Senator Edward Kennedy and the Bush White House for animmigration compromise that would have legalized most of the nation's 12million undocumented immigrants, a compromise that was defeated on thefloor of the U.S. Senate. He lives in Virginia with his two daughters and his wife.".
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