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Hunger Striker Demands Release from Jail
12 Mar 2012 / Breaking News, Deportation, The DREAM ActRyan Sullivan reports that Attorneys for Winston-Salem activist Uriel Alberto – who is on a hunger strike lasting more than a week – plan to file a bond motion Tuesday in immigration court to try to get him out of the Wake County Jail: Alberto and two other protesters were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct [...]
Latinos Say Immigration Issue is Personal
06 Mar 2012 / Deportation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, The DREAM ActElizabeth Liorente of Fox News reports that Latinos see Immigration issue as personal, not political: It’s not a dinner table topic for many of them, or the sole issue that will influence whom they support for president in November. But Latinos still listen closely to what candidates say about immigration. A new Fox News Latino [...]
Utah Wants Immigration Reform
14 Mar 2011 / Immigration Reform, The DREAM ActThe Immigration Policy Center reports that Utah is trying to pass its own guestworker program: Utah’s Immigration Solution Not a National Model Legislation Fails To Live Up To State’s Best Intentions Washington D.C. – Late Friday night, the Utah Legislature passed three immigration-related bills that await Governor Herbert’s signature or veto. Utah’s policy discussions were [...]
House of Representatives Passes the DREAM Act
09 Dec 2010 / Announcements, Immigration Reform, News, The DREAM ActThe New York Times reported today that the House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010 also known as the DREAM Act late last night by a vote of 216 to 198. This is great news for undocumented immigrant students that have been brought to the U.S. as children because [...]
Will the DREAM Act be Passed? Deportations of Immigrant Students on Hold.
10 Aug 2010 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Legislative Watch, The DREAM ActThe New York Times reported yesterday that while the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) has been deporting record numbers of criminal aliens, the agency has been less focused on deporting undocumented immigrant students that were brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were children. In cases where immigrant students were identified and apprehended by immigration officials, the students were released from USICE custody and their [...]
Undocumented Immigrant Students Use Lessons Learned on the Civil Rights Movement
03 Jun 2010 / Announcements, Immigration Reform, The DREAM ActThe Orlando Sentinel reported that recently in Boston, immigrant students, the majority of them undocumented, gathered on the steps of the State Capitol voicing for the passage of immigration reform, particularly, the DREAM Act. Although rallies such as this have occurred in the past few years, this time, these students are taking a slightly different approach. That approach [...]
Undocumented Immigrant Students Becoming Bolder in their Fight for Legalization
11 Dec 2009 / Green Cards, Immigration Reform, Legislative Watch, The DREAM ActThe New York Times reported today that undocumented immigrant students, many of which were brought to the U.S. as children by their undocumented immigrant parents, have become more organized and are becoming a group to be reckoned with in their fight for the passage of the DREAM Act . Students have held street rallies in cities across the country, sent [...]
Supporters of the DREAM Act Uniting
10 Nov 2009 / Immigration Reform, The DREAM ActThe Miami Herald reported today that supporters of the DREAM Act are uniting to lobby the government to focus its attention on this legislation. For example, 25-year old Lizbeth Mateo, a native of Mexico and an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for over ten years, earned a bachelor’s degree last year from California State University. Now that [...]
Student Rally for Immigration Reform Scheduled for Today
23 Sep 2009 / The DREAM ActThe Orlando Sentinel reported that a group of about 200 high school students will take part in a one-mile march at 1:30 p.m. calling on the government to pass immigration reform. The students will march from Apopka High School to the Hope Community Center where the area’s immigrant farmworkers’ ministry is based. The students are calling for passage of The Development, Relief [...]
Hispanic Groups Rally for Passage of the DREAM Act
30 Apr 2009 / The DREAM ActThe Journal Gazette reported today that some Hispanic Groups rallied yesterday to support legislation that would grant legal status to certain children of illegal immigrants. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act would grant conditional legal status to students younger than 35 who were brought to the U.S. before the age of [...]
