DreamActivist

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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Ok I’m not going to lie, I’m broke as hell and I’m sure there’s other students out there who are in the same situation. Paying for school can be extremely difficult and frustrating, obviously. And if being broke isn’t enough, being undocumented means we’re excluded from financial assistance programs and most scholarships since they require [...]

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The journalist called him to ask about my life through his point of view. She asked if he was scared about our family being separated because of deportation; she listened as he said, “yes, they’re my only family”. The journalist asked about us growing up and if we get along now, he replied, “we’re just [...]

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Hi Angy, my name’s Ali. I too am undocumented. I found out about you and the New York State Youth Leadership Council through tumblr, and just clicking around. I have to admit I can’t believe I actually stuck around to click around and read the stuff under the #undocumented tag, since I usually can’t take [...]

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Thanks to Martin for sharing his story and his thoughts on the complexity of the issues we deal with every day. My history is very typical and familiar as far as I can describe up to this point, because being dubbed or personified by a general public as an “illegal” human being. What is definitive [...]

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Last week José Luis Zelaya, an undocumented student from Texas, lost his bid to become Texas A&M’s student body president. Yes, you read correctly. An undocumented student ran his own campaign to serve as the president of the entire student body ,and despite his loss we must take a second and analyze what this historic [...]

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There was a time when Leonardo thought he would never be able to go to college. Four years later, he is studying at one of the best universities in the country: Stanford. Leonardo was only 6 years old when his mother re-married and moved to the United States without him. He was raised, in Mexico, [...]

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I have been a DREAMer since 2000, ever since the age of nine. Coming here to the United States was a confusing to me, considering that we didn’t have no family here. I did not understand why we moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. We did not, and up to this point, we have no family. [...]

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I began Citrus College without ambition in life. Much of this was due to my lack of motivation and the discouragement I faced through my family’s history of not pursuing a degree after high school. College after graduation was a dim possibility and at times a foolish idea. My biggest obstacle was the money. Coming [...]

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I was born in Mexico, but was raised in Minnesota. I have lived in the U.S since I can remember. My parents brought me here when I was one. I have always known of my situation but I never thought it would stop my whole life. I didn’t realize how hard and frustrating it is [...]

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