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This immigration attorney wanted a picture book about immigration for her kids. So she wrote one

CHICAGO - Less than a mile away from Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center but more than 3,600 miles from Dublin, that ancient and lively city of her birth, Fiona McEntee was saying, "With all the anti-immigration rhetoric that we are hearing I think people are in danger of losing an understanding of the true meaning of the American dream."

Chicago has ever been a nurturing spot for immigrants and dreamers, going back to those sly French explorers and missionaries who came for a quick look-see. Soon after came our first settler, the French-speaking black man from Haiti named Jean Baptiste

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