“These are their stories.” Today, Pablo Stanley, designer and co-founder at Carbon Health, launched the “We are all dreamers” website, which showcases stories and portraits of young Americans who are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to Stanley: I want to share with you...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry of America’s Voice Education Fund: The announcement that the President and Democratic Congressional leaders are making progress on the bipartisan Dream Act is encouraging. Of course, it’s premature to comment on the content of an agreement that has not yet been...
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Locations in Arizona notified immigration authorities about undocumented guests Motel 6 employees at two locations in Arizona were reporting undocumented guests to ICE, according to the Phoenix New Times, leading to the arrest of at least 20 people between February and August. A front-desk clerk who spoke to the...
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While Breitbart and Ann Coulter may be up in arms about the prospect of a legislative agreement that would legalize Dreamers, it’s essential to remember that nativist activists do not represent the views of a majority of Republican voters, the Trump base, self-identified conservatives, or Tea Party supporters. A...
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English Ed Source (Opinion) Instead of clarity, Trump’s pronouncements on DACA trigger confusion and anxiety By Louis Freedberg September 12, 2017 Associated Press Democrats say they have deal with Trump on young immigrants By Jill Colvin and Erica Werner September 14, 2017 Associated Press Schumer, Pelosi announce deal with...
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Sep 13, 2017
The family of an 8-year-old biracial boy in Claremont, New Hampshire, said a group of teenagers hurled rocks at him, called him racially charged words, and then pulled a rope around his neck and hung him. The boy’s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, said the incident occurred on an afternoon in...
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SB 54, the California Values Act, may come to a vote as early as this Friday, after state Democratic leaders cleared a key hurdle and amended the bill in order to bring police chiefs — and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown — onboard. SB 54 originally would have strictly limited...
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It’s been a week since Donald Trump ended DACA, the deferred action program that protects hundreds of thousands of Dreamers from deportation. Since then, support for Dreamers has poured in from across the country, from members of Congress to college presidents and university leaders to faith groups to advocates...
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An undocumented college student in Kentucky has complained her university is not abiding by its own non-discrimination policy after she said she was targeted for deportation by a classmate. Paola Garcia, a 21-year-old student at Transylvania University in Lexington who received immigration protection under President Obama’s DACA program —...
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On a hot Wednesday in June, Manuel Rodriguez-Juarez, a 33-year-old landscaper, got into an argument with his live-in girlfriend. The front-desk clerk told him that he needed to show identification in order to reserve a room. Rodriguez-Juarez handed over the only thing he had — a Mexican voter ID...
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