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 [...]
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23 Sep 2009 / The DREAM Act
Tags: DREAM Act, undocumented students
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30 Apr 2009 / The DREAM Act
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 [...]
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Tags: comprehensive immigration reform, DREAM Act, immigrant children, immigrant students, Immigration Reform Orlando, Immigration Reform Tampa, passage of dream act
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23 Apr 2009 / The DREAM Act
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, [...]
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Tags: college board, college board - dream act, comprehensive immigration reform, DREAM Act, foreign students, immigrant students, Immigration Reform Orlando, Immigration Reform Tampa, undocumented students
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27 Mar 2009 / Immigration Reform, The DREAM Act
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 [...]
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Tags: DREAM Act, Immigration Reform Orlando, Immigration Reform Tampa