Over 200 DREAMers, wearing caps and gowns, will present the Deportation Class of 2011 in a ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill today. Speakers include Senator Durbin, Jose Antonio Vargas, undocumented young Pulitzer Prize winner and Mandeep Chahal.
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As DREAMers in Washington, DC, were preparing to introduce America to the "Deportation Class of 2011," a number of brave undocumented students in Atlanta, Georgia took a stand for their community as they protested the state's latest set of draconian immigration laws.
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Ten years after it was first introduced, the DREAM Act got its first ever hearing in the Senate today, giving hundreds of DREAMers in the audience and around the country some measure of renewed hope as Senate Democrats took up the issue once again.
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Jhon Magdaleno was brought to the United States from Venezuela by his parents when he was only nine years old. When he arrived, he knew very little English, and would leave school frustrated everyday from the hardships of having to adjust; However, within six months, he was able to...
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This morning's Senate DREAM Act hearing featured Ola Kaso, a DREAM Act student with a 4.4 GPA from Detroit, Michigan. Though she was brought to the United States when she was just four years old, just last month she found herself fighting deportation to a country she barely knows....
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Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that the U.S. agricultural industry was gravely concern about the prospects of E-Verify legislation, which is sponsored by one-third of our "Three Amigos" on immigration: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX):
The agriculture industry fears a disaster is on the horizon if the one bit...
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As we reported last week, the DREAM Act is getting its first-ever Senate hearing tomorrow, despite having been first introduced in 2001 and being reintroduced multiple times since then.
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Despite Arizona Forest Service officials saying that Senator John McCain didn't know what he was talking about when he said that undocumented immigrants start fires, a few other extreme personalities have decided to ignore that fact and are deciding to drive the right-wing narrative by blaming immigrants for everything.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is promoting his E-Verify program as a "jobs" bill that will ease unemployed Americans' woes. It's telling that the first GOP "jobs plan" introduced this year would send unemployed manufacturing workers in Ohio or Michigan to the fields to pick fruit and vegetables. It's...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Immigration Subcommittee Chair Elton Gallegly (R-CA), and Immigration Subcommittee Vice Chair Steve King (R-IA) -- our "three amigos" on immigraton -- keep advancing their wish list of immigration "reforms" that would tighten the screws on immigrants of ALL statuses.
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