Tomorrow is the State of the Union, and while Dreamers and other immigrants have been invited as guests for years, tomorrow will be something special. With DACA running out of time and no Dream Act in sight, dozens of Dreamers have been invited this year by members of Congress...
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Momentum Growing for “Dream Act Plus Smart Border” Package After widespread condemnation of the White House immigration framework – a cynical attempt to enact longstanding nativist policy goals by exploiting the desperation of Dreamers – key voices are calling for a more narrow approach focused on pairing the Dream Act with...
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In a new column for HuffPost, DACA-recipient and America’s Voice Communications Manager Juan Escalante provides a firsthand analysis of a Dreamer’s take on the dead-on-arrival White House immigration principles. Escalante concludes: Dreamers have been part of the immigration debate since 2001. We have helped to define the discussion on immigration over...
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A recording of today’s call is available here. After another tumultus week on immigration in Washington, leaders from United We Dream, UndocuBlack Network, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and the Women’s Refugee Commission analyzed the White House immigration principles, the state of the federal immigration debate, and the next steps. A...
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Today, the White House rolled out a new anti-immigrant proposal which would use the fact that Dreamers need protection from deportation in order to pass a slate of nativist, anti-immigrant measures that would change U.S. demographics for the long run. The proposal, spearheaded by senior policy “adviser” Stephen Miller, would...
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As the White House rolls out its proposal on immigration, the following is the reaction of Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: President Trump and Stephen Miller are exploiting a crisis that they created, so they can take a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty. They think that by...
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Yesterday, President Trump said he would be open to putting some Dreamers on a path to citizenship, only to have it walked back by unnamed senior staff. The following is a reaction and a reflection on the state of play by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: We...
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The contributions of America’s Dreamers – and the uncertainty they face after Trump killed the DACA program – continue to be highlighted in media across the United States. See below excerpts from Massachusetts, Ohio, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas, and Forbes magazine. WBUR, Boston’s NPR affiliate, published...
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Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Highlight Promise Speaker Ryan Made, But Has Not Kept, to Angelica Villalobos In a new piece in the Washington Post’s The Plum Line blog, Greg Sargent focuses on a promise that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan made last year to Dreamer Angelica Villalobos....
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Jan 23, 2018
The government shutdown is officially over, and Congress has once again failed to pass legislation that protects Dreamers. This happened despite an abundance of polls showing that supermajorities of Americans support immigrant youth and want their elected officials to take action. Some of this support has shown up in...
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