Perez paints a picture that leaves the reader with a clear picture of how inhumane the current immigration process is and the need for comprehensive immigration reform. We Are Americans” is a great and easy read which makes for great contribution to the already existing conversation of humane and comprehensive immigration for all.
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).
AB 130 allows the states undocumented college students to access privately funded scholarships. Its companion bill, AB 131, would allow undocumented students access to the same public financial aid U.S. citizens and legal residents are entitled to. AB 131 has not yet reached the Senate floor.
After his announcement, he said, this fear was replaced by a feeling of liberation. The Freedom from Fear Awards, which commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides that mobilized young people to take down segregation in the South, honor 15 ordinary people who stood up for immigrants and refugees at great personal risk. Cho came out as undocumented at a rally for the DREAM Act during his second year at UCLA.
Governor Robert Bentley recently signed a tough anti-immigration law, the latest in a patchwork of similar legislation that has spread through Republican-dominated states this year, just as the importance of Latino voters in the 2012 presidential election is becoming clear.
SACRAMENTO--The California State Assembly voted 46 to 25 in favor of the California Dream Act, which would allow undocumented students to qualify for financial aid and scholarships at California public universities.
New America Media/Pacific Citizen, News Report, Brianna Pang, Steve Li, an undocumented City College of San Francisco student, sits in a detention center in Arizona, but thanks to a last minute reprieve from U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein his deportation to Peru has been delayed. But for other similarly undocumented Asian Pacific American students, living life [...]
New America Media, News Report, Andres Caballero: High school and college students in New York, who for years have been lobbying Congress to pass legislation that would bring undocumented students closer to their dream of attending college and pursuing a career, said last week they are not giving up the fight after lawmakers again refused [...]
