fastest-growing minority.

Born in Mexico, Godinez-Samperio came to the United States with his parents at age 9, and never left because they overstayed their tourist visas. He learned English, became an Eagle Scout, was valedictorian of his senior class at Armwood High in Seffner and an honors student at FSU's law school.

The opposition in the House was strongest among a group of conservative Republicans, some of whom described Godinez-Samperio as "illegal," a term senators avoided. But Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, a lawyer and Iraq war veteran, championed the legal scholar's cause and said that he was ready to defend his adopted country was "very compelling."

Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-Trinity, criticized Godinez-Samperio's lobbying. "He knew the rules of the game before he started playing and we shouldn't change the rules atLocation

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This is an account of many lives – the author’s and of writers, editors, publishers, booksellers and readers – spent with words, written printed and bound. Drawing upon years of reading, and a long career in publishing, Sridhar Balan gives us stories and facts about some extraordinary book people and places. There are accounts of Dean Mahomed the first Indian author in English, who became a ‘shampooing surgeon’ to English royalty and set up the ‘Hindostanee Coffee House’ in London where he served everything but coffee! E.V. Rieu a scholar of the classics and the founder of OUP in India who was also a wonderful writer of verse for children. There are anecdotes about Roy Hawkins (Hawk) , Ravi Dayal a Patrician among publishers, along with Ram Advani,