Last week we brought you the story of immigrant students putting pressure on USA Today to change a provocative and misleading headline on a piece about young people who would benefit from the DREAM Act. Well, today those same advocates have cause to celebrate what they are calling a...
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Rosa: "While it's not uncommon for other established media outlets to use a term like "illegal immigrant," a problematic title that assumes an individual is guilty of breaking immigration laws, it's nearly impossible to be an "illegal student" in the United States. What's next? Will there be "illegal Church...
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Dec 11, 2009
It has not been easy for the Obama administration to deport Rigoberto Padilla, a Mexican-born college student in Chicago who has been an illegal immigrant in this country since he was 6.
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Earlier this month, Angela Caputo of Progress Illinois described Rigo Padilla, the 19-year-old honors student facing deportation, pictured in the video above, as "A Local Posterchild For Our Broken Immigration System:" Well, according to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR):"Today, December 10th, we got some great...
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The Washington Post has a devastating feature today entitled, "Left behind: A child's burden," and subtitled, "An undesirable inheritance." In it, N.C. Aizenman reports on the diverse ways in which the U.S.-born kids of Hispanic immigrants are coping with poverty, as well as the fact that they are two...
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What began earlier this year as one young man's quest to stay in the U.S. has grown into a movement, with nearly 200 demonstrators rallying on behalf of Rigo Padilla in Chicago last week and faxes and text messages being sent to Washington with pleas to spare him from...
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Nov 16, 2009
A Chicago City Council committee wants federal officials to halt deportation proceedings against immigrant students.
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As her fellow college graduates busy themselves with spamming every available e-mail inbox with resumes, 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo keeps to the same Los Angeles coffee shop she's worked in for the past five years.
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Oct 27, 2009
It's a sensitive subject on all sides, and it's one of the many issues entangled in the ongoing immigration policy debate in the United States. It's the DREAM Act, and some UCLA students want the legislation passed.
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All it took was a wrong turn for Jorge-Alonso Chehade to face deportation.
But that wrong turn also brought him attention and praise from Washington state's congressional delegation, pro bono attorneys and maybe, just maybe, a chance to stay in the United States.
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