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 of 2009 Factsheet
- DREAM Act 2009 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)
