DreamActivist

Friends, you have responded and our pressure has been successful. Wednesday afternoon at 4 pm, just before our vigil, ICE officials released Reylla from custody – with a one year stay (to fight her case) outside of detention and with her family. The 50+ people who came to attend the emergency vigil, got to witness the joy of [...]

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GEO Group, a major private prison corporation that makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year on the detention and supervision of immigrants, has adopted a “human rights” policy. Read it here. Go ahead, it’s short. GEO Group is in the middle of a public relations crisis. After being infiltrated by the National Immigrant Youth [...]

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Felipe Vargas has been a longtime ally of the immigrant rights movement, especially to undocumented youth. Now, as he runs for school board in San Antonio, it’s time for our movement to make sure he gets our support. Most importantly, Vargas wants to make sure all parents whose children are in Southwest ISD school system [...]

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  May 7, 2013 media@theniya.org  SAVE THE DATE: NIYA Presents DREAM Graduation in DC on June 25 Will celebrate victories, push on to stop deportations   NATIONAL—Every year, the National Immigrant Youth Alliance presents DREAM Graduation in Washington DC, where we reflect on our accomplishments over the past year and welcome yet another class of [...]

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Oregon joins more than a dozen states that now offer in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants in the state who meet certain residency requirements. Despite the state’s liberal/progressive reputation, it took Oregon over a decade to get a bill through both chambers and signed. From the Statesman-Journal: They estimate only 38 additional students in the coming [...]

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From the New York Times: Ms. Preston disagrees with the ruling on the term “undocumented.” It should not be so strictly avoided. But, she said, neither should “illegal immigrant” be banned. “It’s accurate and it considers the broad terms of the debate. We shouldn’t be banning an accurate term.” Today, the Associated Press has decided [...]

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After public pressure from DreamActivist, the Stop Owlcatraz Coalition, and others, GEO Group, Inc. has decided not to purchase naming rights to Florida Atlantic University’s football stadium. From the Sun-Sentinel: “What was originally intended as a gesture of GEO’s goodwill…has surprisingly evolved into an ongoing distraction to both of our organizations,” said George Zoley, chairman [...]

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As of December, President Obama has deported more than 1.5 million people. Is it possible that he will deport 2 million before Congress can pass immigration reform? By now most people know that the president deported nearly 410,000 people in the year he was running for reelection alone. It would be something to say that [...]

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January 29, 2013 media@theniya.org More of the same: We Need Real Change for Immigrants We cannot keep talking about immigrants as criminals  The President and the Senate have placed themselves in the irreconcilable position of trying to both criminalize immigrants and argue for a pathway to citizenship. The only way that immigration reform can be [...]

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Yesterday, the Justice Department placed the brakes on the dreams of thousands of intending young immigrants, including many DREAM Act eligible youth. It appealed the landmark Ninth Circuit Child Status Protection Act victory to the Supreme Court. The cert petition is available here. On September 26, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, ruled that [...]

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