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NY – Claudio Faces Deportation for Calling an Ambulance: Take Action!

Can you believe it? Claudio Molina is facing immediate deportation all because someone saw him convulsing and did what they should have done, called for an ambulance. Instead of the ambulance police showed up and arrested Claudio. Having spent almost two months in detention Claudio is being told “the next plane for Argentina leaves Tuesday, [...]

“I’m a 15-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and I’m Facing Deportation”

This email was sent to me by Fredd Reyes, who we helped to get out of detention in Thanksgiving of 2010. Ever since then, Fredd and his mom have been under constant supervision by ICE and his mom recently received a “bag and baggage” letter.  This was written by Fredi Reyes, his younger brother. My [...]

Undocumented Youth vs. Sheriff Arpaio – Why are you allowing your community to be deported?

This is what power looks like. Yesterday 6 undocumented youth joined hundreds of others to take a very public stand against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Yes we all know he is a horrible person, but what good does it do saying that and not putting any action behind it. We needed Sheriff Joe to know that, as [...]

Obama forces S-COMM down the throat of New York & Massachusetts

15 May 2012

Hundreds of mothers in the states of New York and Massachusetts celebrated their last Mother’s Day in the US this week–despite opposition from us, police departments, civil rights groups, and just about everybody else, the Obama Administration activated the program in those states today. Both states expressed their strong opposition to the program. The Obama [...]

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Ninth Circuit Hears From “Aged Out” Immigrant Youth

14 May 2012

On Friday, May 11, 2012, with the help of the highly-regarded immigration firm of Benach Ragland LLP, we filed an amicus brief (“friend of the court”) with the Ninth Circuit in Cuellar de Osorio v. Mayorkas asking the Court to reject the Board of Immigration Appeals decision in Matter of Wang, which unnecessarily limited the class of individuals who could [...]

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Mi madre, la inmigrante

13 May 2012

Desde que me acuerdo, mi madre siempre ha estado de pie y dispuesta a sacrificar cualquier cosa con tal de que nosotros, sus hijos, salgamos adelante. Ella ha siempre sido el apoyo moral y espiritual de todos en la casa, y aun más desde que yo personalmente vivo fuera de casa. Tal y cual es [...]

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Secure Your Own Community: The Tytla Family, Miguel and Ubel

09 May 2012

The National Immigrant Youth Alliance‘s new program for the month of May, Secure Your Own Community, is well underway. Join us as we continue to push back on record-high deportations of our families and community members. Are you ready to take a stand and be active in stopping the deportation machine? Here are THREE different cases [...]

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Video: Diana Banda and the Oregon 4

04 May 2012

Great May day action from Oregon DreamActivist.  

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New York Dream Fund: A Distraction From Real Change

03 May 2012

The New York Dream Fund, similar to the Illinois Dream Act, passed the Assembly on May 1st with 136 yes votes. This fund would create a privately financed scholarship fund for all children of immigrants in New York State. In order to have money inside the fund, one must fundraise and/or receive donations. A committee [...]

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Call for Stories: Are You An Aged-Out Son/Daughter of a Legal Permanent Resident?

02 May 2012

Here’s some good news: the Ninth Circuit has agreed to re-hear the Child Status Protection Act class action litigation, Cuellar de Osorio v. Holder. If they rule in favor of the petitioners, thousands of undocumented youth, immigrant youth with legal resident parents and young adults separated from their parents will become eligible for green cards. [...]

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May Day Manifesto

01 May 2012

[Written for a May Day rally] We are gathered here on this May Day for many reasons. We are gathered to celebrate community, community that has been built by the hands and on the backs of working class people. We are gathered to remember those who have labored in the past to ensure that we [...]

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Izlia Finds Her Way to Tacoma Detention Center – A DREAMer

25 April 2012

Izlia is currently sitting in jail, she was told she would be picked up by ICE this morning, Wednesday the 25th, and transferred to the Tacoma Detention Center hundreds of miles away. We have a very short window to get ICE to realize its mistake in detaining another DREAMer, help us get the word out [...]

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Fearing Undocumented Motherhood

24 April 2012

Snot, drool, vomit, diarrhea, messy diapers and sleepless nights don’t scare me. I helped raise all of my siblings, growing up with a single mom required me to step up not just as an older sister but as a second mother. My fears of motherhood are deeper than the average fears and it’s mostly influenced [...]

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