Congresswoman Judy Chu and Attorney Carl Shusterman

CARL SHUSTERMAN WITH CONGRESSWOMAN JUDY CHU

This photo was taken in Congresswoman Judy Chu’s office in February 2010. Representative Chu, a member of the House Immigration Subcommittee, had called a meeting of local immigration attorneys to discuss national immigration laws and policies.

Congresswoman Chu was elected in 2009 and is the first Chinese-American woman ever to serve in Congress.

Attorney Carl Shusterman attended Congresswoman Chu’s wedding over 30 years ago. He was a guest of her husband Mike with whom he attended UCLA Law School in the early 1970s.

Congresswoman Chu is a co-sponsor of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives in December 2009.

About the need for immigration reform, Congresswoman Chu states: “This isn’t a Latino or an Asian or a white or an African-American issue. Immigrants of all ethnic groups have been caught up in our flawed system. These are our neighbors, our relatives, who are being affected, who are having their dreams postponed, their aspirations curtailed. Communities of all colors and ethnic backgrounds must band together to support immigration reform. Like nearly every American citizen, all of our families were at one point immigrants to this land. We must stand in solidarity with our immigrants, whose only disadvantage is that their families arrived on these shores later than ours.”