Young people and Members of Congress gathered on Capitol Hill yesterday to tell their personal stories and urge Congress to support the DREAM Act. Cesar Vargas, Michelle Rodriguez, and Michael Nazario shared why they want to serve our country - their country - through military service. Rep. Joe Crowley...
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Dec 1, 2010
After spending a night in jail, 16 college students and community activists continued pushing for passage of a youth immigration measure Tuesday, holding rallies and vigils and continuing a three-week hunger strike to ratchet up pressure on lawmakers.
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Michelle Rodriguez, who turns 24 in a few days, has wanted to be a Marine ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when she was in ninth grade.
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A group of young undocumented immigrants gathered Tuesday at a military recruiting center in the U.S. capital, offering to serve as volunteers in the military of the country they grew up in. "This is our country, the country we love," 21-year-old Lizardo Bujelet told Efe. "All we ask is...
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Immigrant advocate groups have mobilized across the country in what they call a last-ditch effort to persuade Congress to pass a bill that would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students, pressing for action in the remaining weeks when Democrats control both houses of Congress.
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No matter where Americans stand on illegal immigration, forcing a mother to decide, after more than a decade of productive residence in this nation, whether her children should be uprooted from the only life they've known or effectively become orphans (Maldonado's husband Diego was deported weeks ago) does not...
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A coalition of labor and advocacy groups has launched a "six-figure" ad campaign aimed at Republican senators whose votes are needed to pass the DREAM Act before the current session of Congress runs out.
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If the Dream Act passes, credit must go to those who have fought for it most strenuously, at greater personal risk and inconvenience than anyone else: the young people whose futures it will decide. Thousands of students, calling themselves "undocumented and unafraid," have led an admirable campaign of advocacy...
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Nov 29, 2010
"For our young people, for our country, for our country's economy, we desperately need to pass the DREAM Act," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on a call organized by Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
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Nov 28, 2010
Rep. Luis Gutierrez is the most passionate, tireless, and nettlesome voice in Congress on immigration matters. He's a constant presence at rallies and on TV, defending the undocumented and railing against xenophobia.
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