Nov 30, 2010
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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A rational approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with the young people who were brought here as babies, toddlers and adolescents. A nation as kind as ours should not turn its back on them. Congress needs to support the sensible, humane approach embodied in legislation known as the...
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With Congress expected to vote soon on immigration reform, a new generation of undocumented scholars who were raised in California are shedding their secrecy and speaking about their lives.
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With both the U.S. House and the Senate leadership pledging to push the DREAM Act in the lame-duck session and perhaps as soon as this week, Latino leaders and community organizers say the people they sent to Washington two years ago have about two more weeks to prove they...
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Seizing a window of opportunity before the new year ushers in a more conservative Congress, Democratic lawmakers and a handful of Republicans are leading a final charge to pass the DREAM Act, a youth-oriented immigration reform policy that would have its deepest impact in California.
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For the Maldonado children of Painesville, life as they know it is about to end and probably end badly..."I would think that we would be more prepared to handle this in a humanistic way," he said. "America has experience at immigration. We should be getting better."
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Thousands of high-school and college-age student-immigrants are lobbying Congress, introducing themselves to citizens by scheduling meals together and performing acts of public service to draw attention to the DREAM Act
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