The personal narratives of lawmakers whose parents and grandparents came to the United States from elsewhere were a key factor pushing the US Senate to reach its hard-fought compromise on immigration reform.
In the case of Republican Senator Mel Martinez, it was not a distant forebear, but he himself who arrived in the United States from another country.
Cuban-born Martinez, who helped to craft the key breakthrough compromise that Democrats and Republicans signed on to Thursday after days of stalemate, said he has been helped in the debate by his perspective as an immigrant.
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