Maria (who declined to give her last name), buys Mexican-made birth control pills without a prescription from the local Yerberia (herbal medicine shop) where she also works. On other occasions, she gets the pills from her mother who buys them in Mexico and brings them back across the border.
Nearly 65,000 students–per graduating class–are legally prohibited from going to college, joining the military or holding down a self-supporting job. These are bright, committed students who wish to excel in their lives and, in many cases, give something back to their communities.
Cardenas is among a group of people who have been identified as “low priority” for deportation in a pilot program being launched this week in Denver that is being seen as a test of the Obama administration’s new deportation policy.
Responding to a question via Skype by Filipino Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, Clinton said it is “important" for undocumented immigrants to “be treated with a humane approach," especially if they are young.
Most of the John and Jane Does buried here were found dead, their bodies strewn across the desert hills of Imperial Valley, or along the All American Canal that feeds a sprawling agricultural expanse extending from El Centro, Calif., to Mexicali, Mexico. No one knows who they are and few seem to really care.
He had just left a gas station near the town of Warrior, Alabama, in a rural area when an undercover detective detained him. "They never said why they stopped us," said Hernández, who is pastor of the Prayer Center for All Nations in Aniston, Alabama and is also undocumented.
A third-year political science major, Hong is one of an estimated 600 students at Cal with either indeterminate or undocumented immigration status, and according to a recent report in the Korea Times, nearly a third of them are from South Korea. Statistics released by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) show that Asians comprise between 45 and 55 percent of all such students registered in UC schools, compared to 25 to 30 percent for Latinos.
As an attorney at Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a national women’s rights advocacy organization based in San Francisco, I come across women everyday who work hard to support their families. They tend to have limited education, living below the poverty line, and many are undocumented. Many are mothers who brought daughters to this country at a very young age, daughters who consider this country their own. While these mothers may have dim hopes about their own potential for advancement, this should not be the case for their daughters. And yet it will be without the passage of the DREAM Act (the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act).
Mexico said that HB 56, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants and grants police the power to stop people whom they suspect might be undocumented, undermines relations with the United States.
Their crime is having been born on different soil – Mexico, the Philippines, Honduras, Cuba, Colombia – then brought to the United States by families who wanted only to give them a better life. They are the DREAMers – an acronym for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. For more than a decade, Dreamers and their allies have been pushing for a national Dream Act – a pathway to legal residency for children brought to the U.S. by undocumented parents.
