The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

The College Board released a report titled, “Young Lives on Hold: The College Dreams of Undocumented Students” which supports passage of the DREAM Act. If passed, the DREAM Act will amend the immigration law to allow certain immigrant students who graduate from an American High School, are of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. as children, [...]

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (also called “The DREAM Act”) was re-introduced in Congress yesterday. The bill provides that certain immigrant students who graduate from an American High School, are of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. as children, and have been in the U.S. continuously for a period of at least five [...]