WI: Immigration Rally on the Capitol Steps
January 19, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
MADISON (WKOW) — Dozens of Madison-area high school and college students held an immigration rally on the steps of the state capitol Tuesday night.
The students started with a march down State Street chanting in support of immigration reform.
They were trying to drum-up support for two pieces of legislation, the DREAM and CIR-ASAP Acts, which support comprehensive change of U.S. immigration policy.
The DREAM ACT would open a pathway for earned legalization through higher education. It is co-sponsored Wisconsin senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl.
The CIR-ASAP Act in the House also creates an earned legalization pathway.
“As long as our immigration system is broken and outdated,” said a speaker at the rally, “our economy, American families, all American workers, and students will keep suffering.”
Leave a Comment | PermalinkNY: “Uncovering the Dream Act” Panel Talk Part of NYU’s MLK Celebration Week
January 18, 2010 | Category: Events | Leave a Comment
NYU kicks off a week of events with “Uncovering the DREAM Act” a panel talk sponsored by the Multicultural Greek Council on proposed federal legislation to help undocumented youth gain citizenship through a college degree or military service.
Uncovering the Dream Act
Monday, January 18, 2010
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
MLK Celebration Week
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 206 (40 Washington Square South)
Open to the public and free
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The Multicultural Greek Council is proud to present our first event of the semester: “Uncovering the DREAM Act,” which will take place on Monday, January 18th at 5:30 PM in Room 206 at the NYU School of Law building. The purpose of our event is to educate the community of the details, the pros, and the cons of the DREAM Act (Development of Relief and Education for Alien Minors). Our event features a panel discussion of the event with guests: NYU Steinhardt professor Dr. Pedro Noguera, NYU Steinhardt professor Dr. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, NYU CMEP Director Richard Chavolla, and Rutgers University student and DREAM Act Activist Karla Panchana.
IL: Chicago Students Step Up Debate on Immigration Reform
January 18, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
By Antonio Olivo
Chicago Tribune
When she was a top student in her Chicago high school French class last year, Reyna Wences tried every excuse to avoid a planned field trip to Quebec. She knew she’d be arrested if she tried.
“Is it the money?” she recalled her teacher at Walter Payton Prep asking.
Wences, fed up with the double life she’d been leading since her parents brought her into the country illegally nine years ago, finally said: “You know what? I’m undocumented.”
In an event that might have been stymied by fear even a year ago, Wences and more than a dozen other undocumented students will risk making their status even more public Monday at a four-hour “coming out” summit in Pilsen coordinated by a new group hoping to push harder for reforms to the nation’s Immigration system.
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AZ: Dancing For A Dream
January 18, 2010 | Category: Events | Leave a Comment
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 5:00pm
Sabor- taste of Spain
18555 N 59TH Ave
Glendale, AZ
Don’t live in Arizona, but still want to help? Contact Dulce Matuz to sponsor a couple.
Come support the Dream Act and the Arizona Dream Act Coalition at “Dancing for a Dream”- a dance competition & fundraiser. The money raised will help the Coalition continue advocacy efforts, create scholarships, and provide aid for legal assistance.
Dancers will be sponsored by community members and business as they fight to be the last couple on the dance floor.
Aside from being a dance competition, Dancing for a Dream is a celebration! Come party with us and other community supporters. We will have everything from Merengue to Salsa, Reggaeton, Hip-hop, Rock, and Cumbia. Please take the time to support this cause by doing something we all love, dancing!
This event is part of continuous efforts to pass DREAM ACT.
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FL: Trail of Dreams
January 15, 2010 | Category: Featured Organizations | Leave a Comment
On Jan. 1, four young people will lace up their sneakers and head north from Miami toward the nation’s capital along U.S. 1. The travelers would like to be joined in Washington by 100,000 supporters who will rally for the passage of the Development, Relief and Education Act for Alien Minors, or the DREAM Act.
Check out the Trail of Dreams website
On January 1, 2010, we embarked on a 1,500-mile walk from our home in Miami, FL, to Washington, D.C. We walk to share our stories, so that everyday Americans understand what it’s like for the millions of immigrants, especially young people, unable to fully participate in society.
We are four students from Florida – Felipe Matos, Gaby Pacheco, Carlos Roa, and Juan Rodriguez – who were brought to the United States by our families when we were young. This is the only country we have known as home. We have the same hopes and dreams as other young people, and have worked hard to excel in school and contribute to our communities. But because of our immigration status, we’ve spent our childhoods in fear and hiding, unable to achieve our full potential. We walk in order to share our stories and to call on our leaders to fix the system that forces people like us into the shadows, stripping us of the opportunity to participate meaningfully in society.
Leave a Comment | PermalinkCO: New Plan for Immigration Reform Discussed in Longmont
January 15, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
By Victoria A.F. Camron
Longmont Times-Call
60 people meet to discuss federal immigration legislation
Alvaro Billanu, left, and Fernando Martinez sit in front of Junior Martinez, back left, and Victor Barrientos as they and about 60 others attend a Reform Immigration For America campaign meeting Thursday at Las Palmeras Mexican Restaurant, 199 S. Main St. in Longmont.
LONGMONT — Joana grew up wanting to be a nurse.
As a child, she attended public schools in Longmont and Platte-ville. But she can’t afford to go to college because her parents illegally brought her to the United States when she was 2 years old.
“We’re all equal. We’re all God’s children. I really want America to be the land where dreams can come true,” Joana said Thursday night during an immigration-reform meeting at Las Palmeras restaurant.
Approximately 60 people attended the meeting on comprehensive immigration reform and plans to get Congress and President Barack Obama to pass such reform this year.
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AZ: Play Highlights the Plight of Undocumented College-Hopefuls
January 14, 2010 | Category: Events, News | Leave a Comment
By Alison Miller
James E. Garcia has written ‘Dream Act’, a play about undocumented immigrants hoping to attend college.
Roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. Of that number, about 1.6 million are children under 18.
Many of those children attend high school and grow up like any other American teen. But, when it’s time to go to college, their dream is stopped short because of their illegal status.
Local playwright James E. Garcia hopes to play a small part in changing that with the showing of, “Dream Act,” a play based around the proposed Dream Act legislation, which would help children of undocumented immigrants become eligible for citizenship in exchange for the completion of a college degree or two years of military service.
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WI: Children Pay High Price in Our Fight Over Immigration
January 10, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
By Sandra McAnany
LaCrosse Tribune
The exact number of undocumented immigrants in the United States is not known but is estimated at 12 million, including
1.8 million children. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, 75,000 to 115,000 undocumented immigrants live in Wisconsin.
And no matter how we feel about undocumented immigrants, we need to remember the innocent children whose lives are affected every day by the lack of progress toward reforming immigration regulations.
Imagine life as an undocumented child. Children come here illegally with their parents, grow up as Americans and then realize their futures are on hold. An estimated 400 to 650 undocumented children graduate from Wisconsin high schools yearly. Nationwide, there are about 65,000. Even though they are motivated and may have lived in the U.S. most of their lives, the children inherit the limits of being undocumented.
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CA: UCLA Study Says Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants Would Help the Economy
January 7, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
By Anna Gorman
Chicago Tribune
UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy
Based on surveys done after the 1986 amnesty program, it concludes that even during the recession, legalizing undocumented workers would benefit the economy.
Even during the ongoing recession, immigration reform legislation that legalizes undocumented immigrants would boost the American economy, according to a new study out of UCLA.
The report said that legalization, along with a program that allows for future immigration based on the labor market, would create jobs, increase wages and generate more tax revenue. Comprehensive immigration reform would add an estimated $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years, according to the report.
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FL: Undocumented Children Pin Hopes on Revival of DREAM Act
January 1, 2010 | Category: News | Leave a Comment
By Alfonso Chardy
The Miami Herald
The recent Jesús and Guillermo Reyes immigration case has rekindled interest in legislation that would give green cards to some children of undocumented parents.
On Friday morning, the group Fast for Our Families met in front of the Freedom Tower in Miami to announce a walk from Miami to Washington DC and an indefinite fast taking place in South Dade. Both events are demanding that the Obama Administration at now to stop the seperation of immigrant families and their members.
Jesús and Guillermo Reyes were 11 and 15 when their family arrived from Venezuela in 2000. Walter Lara was 3 years old when his parents left Argentina in 1989. Gaby Pacheco was 7 when she came from Ecuador with her parents in 1993. And Juan and Alex Gómez were just toddlers when their family fled Colombia in 1990.
They are all children of undocumented parents who grew up in the United States, the only country they really know. But as adults they are paying the price for their parents’ decision to overstay a visa or cross the border illegally.
In some cases, they were eventually detained and threatened with deportation. But their removal was stayed because of last-minute efforts by friends, classmates, lawyers and lawmakers.
The Reyes brothers’ case has rekindled interest in pending legislation known as the DREAM Act that would provide a solution.
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