Maria Echaveste Believes U.S. is Still Land of Opportunity

Ventura County Star, September 18, 2009 by Scott Hadly
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/18/former-clinton-aide-calls-for-civility/

“Growing emotional as she recalled her childhood in Oxnard, Echaveste said, “I have had other people from other countries say to me there’s no other place a farmworker’s daughter who is of immigrant parents with no education could go from Channel Islands High School to Stanford to Berkeley and go on to work in the White House.”