These are general resources. We will be adding more frequently.

For state-specific resources, check out the FAQs section.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS – IMMIGRANT YOUTH

Research – Where to Get Your Data on Immigration?

• DREAM ACT 2009 Factsheet
• DREAM Act Talking Points
• CIR and DREAM Talking Points
• For the Conscientious Objectors
• DREAM Act Advocacy Tool-Kit (ILRC)
  

Guides for Calling-In

• Call-in Day Materials
• Guide to Contacting Your Congressional Representatives
• Senate Contact List D.C.
• Senate Contact List Home
• House Contact List D.C.

Lobby and Organizing Resources from the United States Student Association

• 7 steps
• Lobby techniques
• Lobby Evaluation Sheet
• Lobby Manual
• DREAM Act Campus Organizing Manual (USSA)

Passing Resolutions

• Sample DREAM Act resolution for Associated Students
• Sample City Council resolution
• Legislative Resolution (Sample: New York)

Papers and Publications – Instate Tuition

• An Examination of Tuition Policies for Undocumented Students – April 2009 (Courtesy – Report on North Carolina Community Colleges)
• NILC – Basic Facts (February 2009)
• UCLA Labor Center Analysis
• Undocumented College Students Taxation Financial Aid – A Technical Note by Michael Olivas
• North Carolina Community Colleges: Report on Undocumented Students
• The Anti-Immigration Movement That Failed – Progressive States

Papers and Publications – General

• Young Lives on Hold – College Board Report
• Law Reviews — DREAM Act (Under Construction)
• True Americans in Hiding – Jennifer Condensa
• Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams – The Lost Potential of Undocumented Students by Roberto G. Gonzales for the Immigration Policy Center
• Perryman Group Study
• Left out But Not Shut Down by Roberto Gonzales
• Undocumented Students: Unfulfilled Dreams
• Dreams Deferred – The Costs of Ignoring Undocumented Students
• Fact Check – Immigration Enforcement and Its Unintended Consequences: The Impact on America’s Children (March 2008)
• Perspective – The Sins of the Fathers: The Children of Undocumented Immigrants Pay the Price (January 2007)

Other sites with DREAM resources

• NCLR DREAM Page
• NACAC DREAM Act page
• Collegeboard on the DREAM Act
• New York Student Youth Leadership Council
• The Immigrant Student Adjustment / DREAM Act page from The National Immigration Law Center
• The MiddleClass.org Position on DREAM

“Illegal Immigration” Resources

• RAND Institute Study on Illegal Immigrants and Crime
• IPC Study – It’s Tax Time – Immigrants and Taxes (April 2008)
• The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration
• Are Illegal Aliens Filling Up Your Emergency Rooms?
• IPC Study – Assessing the Economic Impact of Immigration at State and Local Level (April 2008)
• UN Report on Human Rights of Migrants in the United States
• Fact Check: Why Don’t They Just Get In Line? The Real Story of Getting a “Green Card” and Coming to the U.S. Legally (March 2008)
• Fact Check: Why Don’t They Come Legally? (February 2008)
• Fact Check – Undocumented Immigrants as Taxpayers (November 2007)
• Perspective – Serving the Under-Served: Banking for Undocumented Immigrants (March 2007)
• Policy Brief – A Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: New Estimates of Deaths among Unauthorized Immigrants (February 2007)