I spent the day yesterday at Camp Pendleton, where the son of one of our employees was graduating from Marine Corps Boot Camp and, coincidentally, being sworn in as a new US citizen, along with seven other recruits from the Mariana Islands, Nigeria, and Mexico. My husband and I had helped him and his family get through the process of obtaining their green cards, but only their son has become a citizen because the law allows people serving in the military to accelerate the process. We discovered yesterday that there were many such families who had been assisted through the process, and that the military and the government actively cooperate. 

I think this is one of the avenues concerned people should explore as their time and resources allow, even as we debate the larger issues, because there are people who can be helped right now if we pay attention to the human drama as well as the political one.