Seven students were arrested Tuesday after staging a sit-in at an Atlanta intersection, blocking traffic in a symbolic effort to raise awareness about a controversial immigration issue. Georgina Perez, Viridiana Martinez, Jose Rico, Dayanna Rebolledo, Andrea Rosales, David Ramirez and Maria Marroquin were arrested near Georgia State University.
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House lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday to grant in-state tuition rates at Maryland colleges to illegal immigrants if they complete two years at a community college and can show their parents paid state taxes for the three years before they enrolled.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that illegal immigrant students and young adults who meet the criteria in last year's failed legalization bill in Congress are not a "priority" for her department's law enforcement efforts.
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Groups of immigrants along with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Thursday presented the Change Takes Courage Campaign, in accord with which they will tour the United States to ask President Barack Obama for "justice" for the undocumented.
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A Capitol Hill press conference early this morning, hosted by Democratic Reps. Luis Gutierrez (IL), Mike Honda (CA), Raul Grijalva (AZ), Jan Schakowsky (IL), Keith Ellison (MN), and Judy Chu (CA) launched the "Campaign for American Children and Families," an immigration reform advocacy tour that will begin this weekend...
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When the classroom discussion veered into the topic of illegal immigration last year, Moises Roberto De Leon waited several minutes before wading into the heated debate. When he finally spoke, the De La Salle High School student revealed a secret known only to his closest family and friends.
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President Barack Obama, aware of news that the U.S. Hispanic population has hit 50 million, is turning his attention on issues key to Hispanics, including education. Early this week, Obama held a town hall meeting at a D.C. high school, roughly three miles from the White House, where two-thirds...
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In his State of the Union Address, President Obama said that it makes "no sense to deport talented, responsible young people." So then why are young DREAMers, like Mario Perez, still getting deported?
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Good news in our ongoing coverage of the Emily Ruiz case: Emily Ruiz, the four-year-old US citizen who was separated from her parents and returned by U.S. immigration authorities to Guatemala, has finally made it back home and was reunited with her parents early this morning.
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Manolo Lem is a young Chinese-American who would qualify for the DREAM Act. Brought to the US from Venezuela when he was just two years old, Manolo has lived nearly his entire life in Tennessee, graduated from high school with honors, and earned a BA from Middle Tennessee...
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