Last week, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and the nativist organization NumbersUSA were behind a political effort to release an inflammatory memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The memo was released with the … [Read more...]
Cambridge, MA Supports the DREAM Act – Where Is Scott Brown?
To watch the other speeches that were delivered that day, including by two members of the Student Immigrant Movement, go to The Bean Media.The community where I live is now about as pro-DREAM Act as it's going to get. All we need is … [Read more...]
DREAM Now Letters: Stop The Deportation of Marlen Moreno
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...]
DREAM Now Letters: Tania Unzueta
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...]
DREAM Now Letters Recap: The CHC Has To Stand With Migrant Youth, Not Against Us
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...]
DREAM Now Letters: Wendy
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...]
DREAM Now Letters Recap: Tell Harry Reid You Want The DREAM Act Now
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...]
DREAM Now Letters: Yahaira Carrillo
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...]
DREAM Now Letters: Mohammad Abdollahi
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...]
Messaging & Allies Needed to Counteract Hateful State House Immigration Policies
Has anyone been paying attention to the awful legislative and budget debates at the Mass. State House around undocumented immigrants? I have called all the powers that be and they seem surprised to listen to a caller speaking to stop and … [Read more...]