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Reaction to News & Background Information on Relief for DREAMers Today, the Obama Administration is announcing a bold move to protect an estimated 800,000 undocumented young people. According to the Associated Press, “Under the administration plan, illegal immigrants will be immune from deportation if they were brought to the...
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Breaking news this morning via Associated Press: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin giving work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of a growing Latino electorate that has...
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It’s been a busy few days for evangelical leaders who have come together from across the political spectrum to spend much of this week actively campaigning for comprehensive immigration reform. On Tuesday, faith leaders gathered together in Washington, DC as part of the “Evangelical Immigration Table”. The meeting brought...
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As the media buzz around Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and his impending “DREAM Act lite” continues, important questions remain about what the bill will look like and what its legislative chances will be. As Alex Leary writes today in the Tampa Bay Times of the impending Rubio bill: It’s...
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As Time Magazine Profiles DREAM Act-Eligible Youth, Doubts About Rubio Legislation Viability Makes Case for Executive Action As the media buzz around Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and his impending conservative version of the DREAM Act continues unabated, important questions remain about the bill’s specific content and its legislative viability....
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In addition to their amazing cover story and video on the DREAM Act and the plight of immigrant youth, TIME Magazine today has a great story on the “fiscal fallout of state immigration laws,” or what happens to states that try to “deport their way to prosperity.” As the...
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Check out this very powerful front-cover by Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American on the DREAM Act and DREAMers. We’re tweeting about the article using the hashtag #WeAreAmericans. Define America’s Jose Antonio Vargas wrote a long essay about his journey as an undocumented immigrant–the full article is still behind...
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