Here's an important release from today's media call, organized by Reform Immigration FOR America, in which a bipartisan coalition came together to tell Congress to deliver on real immigration reform like the common-sense DREAM Act, which would allow immigrant youth to obtain citizenship through two years of college or...
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New polling released today from Lake Research Partners on behalf of America's Voice sheds light on the views of all voters toward immigration policy. The research finds that, despite midterm election gains by conservatives and Republicans, Americans' support for comprehensive immigration reform has actually increased. Voters of every...
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Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R), the sponsor of SB-1070 who was recently elected state Senate president, has pushed and authored a series of other lesser-known immigration laws in his state. One of those was Proposition 300 — a referendum approved by Arizona voters in November 2006 which forces...
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In an interview yesterday with Univision's Jorge Ramos, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he would bring the DREAM Act to a vote in the "lame duck" session after the midterm elections, regardless of the election results. Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a...
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In an interview yesterday with Univision's Jorge Ramos, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he would bring the DREAM Act to a vote in the "lame duck" session after the midterm elections, regardless of the election results. Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a...
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The GOP's intransigence on DREAM and active promotion of Arizona's law and copycat laws have made the case to Latinos more forcefully than Democrats ever could about the need to vote on Tuesday.
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Oct 31, 2010
Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader fighting to hold his seat in Nevada, said on Sunday he planned to bring the Dream Act legislation to a vote in the post-election session of Congress.
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Illinois' Senate race is one of the closest in the nation, and Latino voters could make the difference. The video will be distributed to over 50,000 online activists and youth, immigrant and Latino networks Today, America's Voice and Illinois Immigrant Action have teamed up to release a humorous...
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College student Steve Li found out he was a fugitive on Sept. 15, when immigration agents arrived at sunrise at his Ingleside district home. "One day, I was getting ready to go to school," said the 20-year-old student at City College of San Francisco. "The next day I was...
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Oct 21, 2010
Leslie, a history major at the University of California at Los Angeles and an aspiring marathon runner with three part-time jobs and plans for grad school, keeps a neatly folded dark blue T-shirt in her closet among her jeans and her U.C.L.A. Bruins sweatshirt.
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