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President Joe Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union address in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, and an undocumented Long Beach City College student, Alexis Muro, will be in attendance.

Muro will join Tuesday’s address as a guest of U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia.

As an undocumented student, “Alexis is a great example of how important it is to support immigrant communities and create pathways to citizenship,” Garcia said in a statement. The congressman and Muro share similar backgrounds; both immigrated to the U.S. as young children and were raised in Southern California.

Four new members of Congress — Reps. Robert Garcia, Mike Lawler, Summer Lee and Zach Nunn — discuss the potential for bipartisan cooperation on crime, policing, immigration, the debt ceiling, spending and more.

To watch the full panel, please click here. 

Gaby O’Donnell raised her son to be a hard worker, to love the United States and to give back to the communities that welcomed them when she was a young mother who immigrated from Peru.

She made it look easy, even when it was not — like when they struggled to put food on the table, bounced from house to house or had to work long hours to make a better life for her son, future Congressman Robert Garcia. His love of public service comes from his mother, Garcia said in a January interview.