Today, Media Matters has more on Sessions' spurious DREAM Act memo. Continue »
University students across Texas this week joined San Antonio students in a hunger strike aimed at pressuring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to vote for the DREAM Act. Continue »
We can't close the door on their futures just because they're undocumented. "Is there anything you can do so that my life does not come to a stop when I graduate from Seattle University in two years?" Continue »
This isn't the Thanksgiving they dreamed about when they were camped on the corner of 16th Street and Missouri Avenue, near Sen. John McCain's office. They are Americans in every way but birth and there was a time when politicians on both sides of the aisle recognized the cruelty... Continue »
If you knew that by passing legislation to allow 2.1 million American students to pursue higher education or military service, our government could collect $3.6 trillion over the next 40 years, would you do it? Continue »
There is a wide gulf between extremists like Sessions and sensible Americans who recognize the importance of DREAM. In fact, 70% of the American people support the DREAM Act. In truth, the DREAM Act is a narrowly-tailored and traditionally bipartisan piece of legislation that ensures that only those with... Continue »
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), whose extremist ties and past attacks on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have stamped him as a leading anti-Latino lawmaker, is adding to his anti-immigrant legacy by couching his opposition to the DREAM Act with fear-mongering about immigrants and crime and falsehoods about the DREAM... Continue »
There are thousands of patriotic youth who graduate from high school each year with dreams of serving the only country they know, but are ineligible to enlist in the U.S. armed forces because they lack legal immigration status. On a conference call with reporters this Tuesday, U.S. military veterans... Continue »
There are thousands of patriotic youth who graduate from high school each year with dreams of serving the only country they know, but are ineligible to enlist in the U.S. armed forces because they lack legal immigration status. The DREAM Act is a bipartisan bill that would enable... Continue »
A small group of immigration activists staged a protest at the entrance to the Krome immigrant detention center Monday, the first of what they said will be weekly demonstrations seeking a suspension of deportations while Congress decides whether to legalize undocumented immigrants. Continue »