PHOENIX, AZ – Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) joined Arizona immigrant youth to discuss how the repeal of DACA will affect immigrant youth and their families and to commit to pushing policies locally and nationally to protect the 800,000 Dreamers from deportation. In Rep. Gallego’s district, there are 10,000 DACA-recipients and...
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NEW CAP Report Shows GDP Loss Could Be $164 Billion State-by-State Breakdown Here 11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 17 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians: 34 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 80 DAYS A recording of today’s press call is available here. In a press call this morning, economic, legal, and policy...
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For a recording of today’s call, click here. San Antonio, TX – On a press call today, Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro joined local DACA recipients Oscar Hernandez and Damaris Gonzalez, and Mario Carrillo, Director of America’s Voice Texas, to discuss why a legislative solution for Dreamers is so...
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The Washington Post’s Jesse Dougherty has a new must-read on the tight rope that Dreamer and high school volleyball player Nicolle Uria is walking. Like all Dreamers, Nicolle grew up American – her family emigrated from Bolivia when she was just one year old. She didn’t learn she was undocumented until she was a...
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11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 18 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians:35 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 81 DAYS The Catholic News Service reports that the Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Bishop Joe Vasquez, is urging Americans to advocate for an extension of Temporary Protected Status...
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This week, Center for American Progress and USC Dornsife: Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration released a new interactive map, broken down by congressional district, estimating the number of people who would have been eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, the number of DACA-recipients, and the human...
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Decision Deadline for Hondurans: 18 Days Away Decision Deadline for Salvadorans: 81 Days Away Letter Notes That TPS Recipients: Contribute $648 million/year to Social Security & Medicare Essential To Harvey, Irma Reconstruction Efforts Pay taxes, register with DHS Home countries in dire straits, cannot receive recipients Led by Senators Ben Cardin...
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774 Institutions Across USA Ask House and Senate to Keep Our Doors Open to Dreamers “Who Seek to Contribute their Best to America” Cleveland, OH – Twenty-two Ohio colleges and universities have joined nearly 800 others across the United States to ask Congress to “pass a long-term legislative fix as soon...
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