Author Ron Suskind shares how his son Owen found a unique way to relate to the world despite struggling with autism in “Life, Animated.”

Two weeks ago I told you why I am fighting for immigration reform that keeps families together. I told you how I was tired of seeing my family struggle to survive and live under the shadows of our broken system. I knew that I had to do everything I could – and two weeks ago, I did just that by protesting right outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Along with eleven other youth activists, we marched and sat down in the middle of the street, blocking traffic until we were arrested. It was pouring rain but it didn’t matter. It was a necessary step for me and our movement. Now it’s your turn — will you take action to stand up for reform?

Now that I am back home, this experience has given me greater insight and motivation to keep working. I am not afraid anymore and I know now that I can play a real role in this fight. My actions reaffirmed to me that I cannot stop caring for this movement, even for a second. My future is on the line and so is my family’s future, along with thousands of other families who are suffering now and will continue to suffer as long as deportations continue and mothers, fathers, and children do not have citizenship.

We all have a role to play, whether you are an undocumented immigrant or a US citizen, a revolutionary or just an “average Joe.” This struggle is personal. It touches every one of us, but unless we are moved to act together, we will fail. Will you take action for reform?

It has been 322 days since a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill passed in the Senate. In that same amount of time, the US House of Representatives has done nothing to move that bill, or any other type of reform forward. Now is the time when our movement has to give it all we’ve got, or we risk losing everything we have worked so hard to build.

Congress is on recess this week, but we can’t let them take a break until they do real work on immigration reform. Let’s make sure key members of Congress hear our demands for immigration reform now. Take action and call key members of Congress now!

In solidarity,
Yuridia

Here’s what I saw in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood today:

I saw a community coming together to replace an obsolete old train station with a new, energy-efficient one that connects two high-employment areas.

Yesterday, in St. Louis, I saw the construction of a land bridge that’s designed to let residents and tourists better access the city’s famous Archway.

Our infrastructure projects — the roads we pave, the tracks we lay down, the bridges we build — they bring out the best of us as a country. We build big things. It’s our history.

That happened because our Administration took steps to expedite the permitting process for these kinds of projects. And today, we announced that we’re doing the same thing for 11 more accelerated projects — from Boston’s South Station to the Pensacola Bay Bridge.

But there’s more that’s got to be done to make sure this country’s infrastructure projects get the funding they need. That’s something only Congress can do, and they’re running out of time to do it.

Take a look at exactly what that means for millions of Americans — and if you don’t think enough folks realize what’s happening here, then pass this on.

If our Congress doesn’t act soon, the funding that pays for our transportation projects will run out. The Department of Transportation won’t have a dime to go toward more than 112,000 projects happening around the country. Nearly 700,000 good jobs would be at risk. And some states are already slowing down projects because they’re anticipating this inaction.

Think about that for a second.

These states are putting American jobs on the line because they’re actually expecting their legislators to refuse to do their jobs.

It shouldn’t be that way, and you can play a role in changing it by making sure everyone knows what’s going on and what it means.

Learn more about the infrastructure problem we’ve got in this country right now — and how the President’s proposing to fix it.

Thanks.

Vice President Joe Biden