Prerna Lal is a J.D. Candidate at GW Law School, a writer at Change.org, and a Board Member at Immigration Equality.
She's also a DREAMer.
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Beatrice Kiarie, a mother of four has been in detention because of an INS "paperwork mistake" that could take three months to fix. This is another example of the real pain in immigrant communities due to the administration's unrelenting enforcement-only policies.
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This was an important meeting for a number of reasons. First, the President made it clear he is willing to use whatever political capital he has to make the case for immigration reform that can fix our nation's dysfunctional immigration system in a way that ends illegal immigration....
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President Obama convened a diverse group of stakeholders from across the political spectrum. The meeting focused on how to engage the American people in a discussion that would create momentum towards the enactment of immigration reform. America's Voice's Executive Director Frank Sharry attended the meeting and provided...
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Last Friday afternoon, on a press call, DREAM Act youth and immigration experts spoke about the legal authority that the President has to halt the jailing and deportation of DREAM Act eligible youth.
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Last week, 22 U.S. Senators urged President Obama to grant administrative relief to qualified DREAM Act students. The response from the Obama administration's Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz told Univision that Obama will not grant this relief "for a group of people on a large scale."...
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Today on a press call, DREAM Act youth and immigration experts described the established legal authority of the President to halt the arrest, jailing and deportation of young people who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. Speakers provided examples of how President Obama and previous presidents have...
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Elton Gallegly's (R-CA) and the other two amigos (Reps. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA)) have arranged immigration hearings so that it seems as if they're holding them to include a range of topics relating to immigration, but they each follow the same formula: pit different groups against...
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Twenty-two leaders of a broad political spectrum from the Democratic Senate caucus yesterday issued a letter to President Obama. In it, they urged him to use his authority and grant relief from deportation to young people who would be eligible for the DREAM Act.
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