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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Added on 04 May 2012
Ninth Circuit Hears From “Aged Out” Immigrant Youth
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