Welcome to Kentucky: O’Donnell, Shipp helping immigrants get established in the bluegrass state
Margaret O’Donnell’s name is on the Frankfort Interfaith Council’s 2021 Ruby Layson Award for promoting the interfaith qualities of justice, compassion and human kindness. But the October evening she was recognized as the award recipient, O’Donnell quickly mentioned, in a kind way, that the plaque also should have included Becky Shipp’s name. Attorney O’Donnell, founder and executive director of the Frankfort Immigration Assistance Network (FIAN), thanked the council for recognizing immigrants. “Migration is the human condition, folks moving to find better opportunities and to be safe,” O’Donnell said. “Borders are unnatural barriers to that human condition. Immigrants are good,...
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