A Southern Baptist Convention leader says the group's policy arm supports a version of the DREAM Act — the proposed law that would allow illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to earn legal status, either by going to college or serving in the military.
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Imagine an undocumented high school student who won't let a little thing like not being in the country legally stop him from applying to a top university. Those who set their sights on Harvard will often seek me out for advice because, almost 20 years ago, I wrote a...
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Last week, just hours before Mandeep and her mother were scheduled to be deported to India, we learned that immigration officials changed their minds and canceled the deportation. At the last minute, she was given a one year stay of deportation. This was no doubt thank to the thousands...
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Organizers worked around the clock in Texas to stop Mario's deportation. They sent thousands of message to DHS in support of young DREAMers who only wish to give back to the country they know as home.
Continue »It's official—the thousands of faxes we all sent to ICE will allow Manolo and his family to stay in the country for another year!
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College students and graduates campaigning for passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, heard yesterday in a Senate subcommittee, staged a mock graduation ceremony this morning in Washington, D.C.
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Undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and other young people without legal status called on Wednesday for the president to stop deporting students who entered the United States as children as part of administrative relief for a limited number of undocumented immigrants.
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One day after the Senate held its first-ever hearing on the DREAM Act, DREAMers, activists, and allies descended on the Capitol again to stage a special graduation ceremony for the "Deportation Class of 2011." Hundreds of DREAMers from all over the country, born in all different parts of...
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From Christmas to March, Mario was sitting in a Georgia detention center. Though he's been in the United States since he was a baby, he was forced to spend Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine’s Day away from his family, friends, and his bride-to-be, Brandy.
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Following the DREAM ceremony on Capitol Hill, 200 Undocumented Youth are now walking up Pennsylvania Avenue to hold a rally at the White House.
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