What we must do next is move more Latino children through college. (Only 16 percent of Latinos between age 25 and 29 have a college degree.) And that includes children of illegal immigrants.
Last week, rallies were held in several cities to urge Congress to embrace this goal.
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UPDATE: Last week, over 5,000 emails were sent to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, which has helped delay Alonso's deportation. In the following video message, Alonso thanks his supporters for the work they've done so far, and what it is that they can do to help...
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Elizabeth Pineda climbs out from bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a...
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Update: Alonso is still facing deportation and needs his supporters to call Senators Cantwell and Murray asking them to introduce a private bill on his behalf.
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Sep 24, 2009
University of Florida students rallied Wednesday in support of giving undocumented students a path to citizenship, winning the backing of UF President Bernie Machen.
The rally was part of nationwide efforts to promote passage of the federal DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants who graduate high school in the...
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First, pardon the shameless self-promotion, but America's Voice has produced a TV ad regarding CNN's Lou Dobbs problem, in conjunction with the Media Matters campaigns to Drop Dobbs. Watch the ad and donate to get it on the air.
Next up: health care. Cynthia Tucker, a brilliant editorialist with the...
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Today is a national day of action in support of the DREAM Act, legislation that would create a path to legal status through college education or military service for undocumented youth who have been in this country since an early age.
Students all over the country are standing together in...
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A group of high school students will take part in an unusual after-school activity on Wednesday: They will march for immigration reform as part of a national day of youth activism.
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Jorge-Alonso Chehade came to the US from Peru eight years ago and is now being deported after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him when he and a friend accidentally crossed the Canadian border – an incident that happened because the two of them were trying not to violate traffic...
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Aug 22, 2009
The millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. include young people who are studying hard and achieving academic success — only to find the doors of opportunity closed to them when they reach college. Education professor William Perez records their plight in a series of portraits in his...
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