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DREAM Now Letters: Stop The Deportation of Marlen Moreno

August 4, 2010 By kyledeb

I was born in Nacozari, Mexico in 1984. My parents brought me to the United States when I was only 13 years old. We were searching for a better life and we found it in Tucson, Arizona. Despite being born in Mexico, I don't consider myself … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: arizona, deportation, dream-act, dream-now-letters, illegal, immigrant, immigration, marlen-moreno, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, undocumented

DREAM Now Letters: Tania Unzueta

August 2, 2010 By kyledeb

For years we lived in a small basement, then a small apartment. When we moved here, my dad had been offered a job with the promise of regularizing his status through employer sponsorship, 245-i. Our family was going through that process … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, chicago, dream-act, dream-act-21, dream-act-5, illegal, illinois, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, tania-unzueta, undocumented

DREAM Now Letters Recap: The CHC Has To Stand With Migrant Youth, Not Against Us

July 30, 2010 By kyledeb

Before all of our efforts move towards securing mostly Republican votes for the DREAM Act in the Senate, however, there is one last set of important supposed "allies" that have yet to voice their support for passing the DREAM Act this year … [Read more...]

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DREAM Now Letters: Wendy

July 26, 2010 By kyledeb

As early as elementary school, I worked hard to get good grades, going from ESL in second grade to straight A's by third grade. I graduated the sixth grade with a great reputation amongst my peers and teachers; the logical thing to do at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, dream-act, dream-now-letters, illegal, immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, new-york, undocumented

DREAM Now Letters Recap: Tell Harry Reid You Want The DREAM Act Now

July 23, 2010 By kyledeb

After a great deal of sustained pressure, major reform advocates like the Reform Immigration For America campaign have already agreed to moving the DREAM Act forward, now.  Unfortunately, there are others, like the National Council of … [Read more...]

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DREAM Now Letters: Yahaira Carrillo

July 21, 2010 By kyledeb

I was born in 1985 to a barely-turned 16 year-old who had been kicked out of her house while she was pregnant for being a disgrace to the family. I lived with my mother in an abandoned house in Guerrero, Mexico. She struggled to find … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dream-act, dream-now-letters, homophobia, illegal, immigrant, immigration, kansas, lgbt, mexico, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, missourri, undocumented, yahaira-carrillo

DREAM Now Letters: Mohammad Abdollahi

July 19, 2010 By kyledeb

On May 17, according to the New York Times, I become one of the first undocumented students, along with two others, to "have directly risked deportation in an effort to prompt Congress to take up [the DREAM Act]."  Risking deportation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, dream-act, illegal, immigrant, immigration, iran, lgbt, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, mohammad-abdollahi, undocumented

Will Sen. Scott Brown Meet With Massachusetts Immigrant Youth Before April 17?

April 12, 2010 By kyledeb

Currently, we are not asking for any policy commitments from Sen. Brown.  We are only asking for a simple meeting.  We want Sen. Brown to hear the stories of immigrant youth who have been affected by the broken federal … [Read more...]

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Let America Be America Again – Support Herta

August 13, 2009 By kyledeb

I first heard about Herta through the folks at dreamactivist.org, whom I have been working and spending a lot of time with, lately.  In typical dreamactivist.org fashion, if you get involved they'll find a way to use you anyway they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dream-act, gandhi, herta-llusho, illegal, immigrant, immigration, langston-hughes, migrant, migration, undocumented

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