Who is an American? Americans have a dream.  As one president said, "As a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea that everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed.  No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it.  That is an essential promise of America.  Where you start should not determine where you end up."  Clearly, the American construct recognizes that our strength is based on values, not bloodlines.  Today, we are going to speak about the U.S. immigration system.  A system that almost all our families have dealt with in one form or another.  I talk with Abigail Trillin, the Executive Director of Legal Services for Children, an organization that is one of 15 non-profits that make up the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Collaborative.  You can find Abigail at [email protected].  The website for Legal Services for Children is lsc-sf.org. The website for the collaborative is sfildc.org.