Yesterday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Anaheim, California, was met with protests asking that the 2011 game be moved out of Phoenix due to Arizona's passage of SB 1070 -- but the game is staying put for now. Meanwhile, a list sent to officials in Utah that claims...
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Today in the Spanish-language press, actions in support of the DREAM Act heat up across the country, while Arizona business owners have more backbone than Democratic governors in standing up to Arizona's SB 1070. Meanwhile, hate crimes in Staten Island, NY have immigrants afraid to walk the streets, and...
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Jul 12, 2010
It is not fiscally prudent to walk away from a 12-year investment just as it is about to pay off. But, in stark economic terms, that's what happens tens of thousands of times a year all across the country. Taxpayers are denied their money's worth. Why does this continue...
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Various outlets in the Spanish-language press cover a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) documenting how many students would be eligible for temporary legal status under the DREAM Act, and how many of those would be likely to fill the requirements for citizenship. Meanwhile, the United Farm...
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RALEIGH -- One of the three young women on a hunger strike in downtown Raleigh protesting immigration laws was hospitalized last night, likely because of heat stroke. Silva was released from the hospital early this morning and is resting at home, and stopped her hunger strike, said Viridiana...
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Backers of the bill — known among themselves as "Dreamers" — have been fasting and marching and demonstrating for months. Some have publicly outed themselves as undocumented. They have put faces and names to the 65,000 students who graduate each year from high school into permanent limbo, unable either...
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Jun 23, 2010
Three young women in North Carolina are starving for the DREAM Act. Viridiana, Loida and Rosario – known as the "North Carolina Dream Team" -- are on day eight of their hunger strike, and will continue with it until Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) publicly endorses this common-sense piece of...
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Jun 21, 2010
After the news of his plight generated outcry and editorials on his behalf, the announcement that Eric Balderas will not face deportation is both a welcome development and a clarion call to pass the DREAM Act.
According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, "While Eric's story is resolved...
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On July 6, he will have a hearing before an immigration judge, almost exactly one year when the U.S Government delayed the deportation of another student, Walter Lara, who like Eric received national attention in his fight to prevent his deportation to a place that he did not...
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This is what it has come to. Our nation's immigration system is so dysfunctional that a Harvard biology major, a stellar student who dreams of curing cancer, is being threatened with deportation by the Department of Homeland Security.
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