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Immigrants Of The Week: Immigrants On The Los Angeles Lakers, Filemon Lopez, and Richard Wolffe

by Greg Siskind

IMMIGRANTS OF THE DAY: IMMIGRANTS ON THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS

The LA Lakers are perhaps the most popular basketball team in the world, but, of course, my loyalty is to the hometown Memphis Grizzlies. One of my favorite players, Spaniard Pau Gausol, left Memphis for the Lakers last year and I still like the guy. Here are the Lakers international team members:

Pau Gasol - Forward/Center - Spain
Didier Ilunga-Mbenga - Center - Congo
Sasha Vujacic - Guard - Slovenia
Sun Yue - Guard - China

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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: FILEMON LOPEZ - THE VOICE OF THE OAXACA PEOPLE

The New York Times recently ran a profile piece on radio show host Filemon Lopez who broadcasts in native languages from a station in Fresno, California to poor Mixtec Indians from Mexico working in agriculture in central California. Lopez, a beneficiary of the 1986 legalization program, has been in the US for 30 years. He brings a little piece of home to immigrants performing backbreaking work to put food on our tables.

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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RICHARD WOLFFE - JOURNALIST

Tonight I saw British-born journalist Richard Wolffe on both CNN and on his regular spot with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He's usually commenting on the day's American political news, but he's now also promoting his new book, Renegade. Wolffe covered the entire campaign of President Obama, from the day he announced he was running until Election Day 2008. He was a senior writer at Newsweek at the time and now writes for Tina Brown's The Daily Beast.

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About The Author

Greg Siskind is a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee, office. After graduating magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, he received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago. Mr. Siskind is a member of AILA, a board member of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and a member of the ABA, where he serves on the LPM Publishing Board as Marketing Vice Chairman. He is the author of several books, including the J Visa Guidebook and The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Mr. Siskind practices all areas of immigration law, specializing in immigration matters of the health care and technology industries. He can be reached by email at gsiskind@visalaw.com.

The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinion of ILW.COM.

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