Thursday, February 02, 2012

Neighbors Link Board Chair Has Empathy for Immigrant Community

The Chair of this organization recognizes that the Hispanic community is the same as all the immigrant groups that have come here before. - - Donna Poisl

By Tom Auchterlonie

For Neighbors Link Board Chair Barbara Jackson, the Hispanic immigrant community that lives in Mount Kisco has similarities to historical patterns of immigration, with successive groups coming to America in search of a better livelihood.

Interested in history - her husband Kenneth Jackson is a professor at Columbia University - she notes that looking back, we are all immigrants.

“It’s been our narrative, it’s been our story.”
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