Freed on Friday after 30 days behind bars, the former Reading High School honor student embraced the role chosen for him - immigration reform activist.
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After the U.S. Senate killed the DREAM Act on Saturday, its young supporters vowed to continue the fight.
"It's a heartbreaking loss, but we're going to keep fighting for it," said Him Ranjit, a University of Texas at Austin student who was in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to support the...
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Dec 19, 2010
When the Senate took two of its most highly anticipated votes of the lame-duck session on Saturday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was nowhere to be found.
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Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of legislation.
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A Senate vote not to legalize illegal students set back an emerging movement and rebuffed the president's policy... Part of the administration's strategy has been to ramp up border and workplace enforcement to attract Republican votes for the overhaul. The vote on Saturday made it clear that strategy has...
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Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
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Dec 18, 2010
Here's a slideshow of DREAM Act champions in the Senate and DREAM youth from across the country reacting strongly to today's Senate vote -- in which the DREAM Act obtained majority support (55-41) but not the 60 votes needed to beat a Republican filibuster. While there were many...
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This morning, in a procedural vote requiring 60 votes to advance the legislation, the U.S. Senate voted for the DREAM Act by a 55-41 margin, effectively shutting the doors of opportunity to thousands of bright and talented young people who grew up in America and wanted to give back...
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There's bad news in the offing for America's political immigrant bashers, beyond even the fact that the most egregious among those who sought to make hay by blasting newcomers in last fall's elections all lost.
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The Senate blocked on Saturday a vote on the DREAM Act which would have provided children of illegal immigrants a conditional pathway to apply for citizenship.
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