Nov 21, 2010
The DREAM Act sends the message that although American immigration law in effect tries to make water run uphill, we are not monsters. It says that we will not hobble the prospects of young people raised and schooled in America just because we were so perverse to demand that...
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Taking a page from civil rights protesters of another era, eight young adults in San Antonio are waging a hunger strike to try to pressure Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a law they say is their only real shot at having a successful future in the United States,...
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In a town where political hypocrisy is in no short supply, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) manages to take things to another level. In his latest instance of "getting to no" on immigration, Cornyn opposes taking up the DREAM Act because, he says, Americans want Congress to focus on border...
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In a town where political hypocrisy is in no short supply, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) manages to take things to another level. In his latest instance of "getting to no" on immigration, Cornyn opposes taking up the DREAM Act because, he says, Americans want Congress to focus on border...
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Congress should take up the DREAM Act because it's the right thing to do. It's wrong to visit the sins of the parents onto their children. Many illegal immigrants getting ready to attend college came here as young children. They didn't cross a border. They were yanked across the...
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Latinos are fed up with congressional delays over comprehensive immigration reform. The time has come for President Obama and the Democrats to man up in the lame-duck session and at least fight to pass the Dream Act.
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Nov 18, 2010
This is the closest we've come to providing a pathway to citizenship for nearly a million young people who are American in all but paperwork. Still, our most important work is just ahead. In order to make this happen, we're going to need to win several Republican...
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The day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced he will bring the DREAM Act to the floor, as a stand-alone measure, during the lame-duck session, DREAM-eligible youth joined national leaders at the National Press Club to call on Congress to pass the DREAM Act before the end...
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One day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced he will bring the DREAM Act to the floor as a stand-alone measure during the lame-duck session, DREAM-eligible youth joined civil rights and faith leaders at the National Press Club to call on Congress to pass the DREAM Act...
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US Education Secretary Arne Duncan Thursday pressed lawmakers to start debating a proposed law that would allow children of illegal immigrants to go to US universities..."This is as good a time as any, and given the urgency and the desperate need to have a better educated and knowledge-based workforce,...
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