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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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April 24, 2013 media@theniya.org   Infiltration Leads to DHS Opening Civil Rights Investigation into ICE First step in cleaning up problem agency NATIONAL—After being infiltrated and exposed by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will now have to comply with a civil rights investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into five [...]

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After a round of Tweets sounded off and alerted Stephen Colbert regarding the GEO/FAU situation, it seems that the Comedy Central decided to pick up and run the story on the Colbert Report last night. While Stephen injects a bit of humor, snark, and satire into the story – we must not forget that there [...]

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February 21, 2013 Media@theniya.org 704.281.9911 734.262.9705 NIYA Demands that Florida Atlantic Reject “OwlCatraz” Deal with Geo Group Naming rights at stadium insults Florida immigrant families  BOCA RATON, Fla.—The National Immigrant Youth Alliance is appalled that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) would sell naming rights to its football stadium to GEO Group, Inc. amid the controversy it [...]

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Last week, the news broke that some really wonderful people at the National Immigrant Youth Alliance had literally infiltrated the Broward Transitional Center in Florida, what can only be described as a waiting-room-come-prison for immigrants. News trickled out that they were recording the stories of other people in the detention center, some who were in [...]

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Over the course of the last month, as the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, several undocumented youth have been working hard to infiltrate into select detention centers around the country to see what is really happening inside these detention centers. On June 17th, 2011, President Obama, through ICE director John Morton, issued a memorandum outlining his [...]

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We have 10 deportation cases we are hoping you can help us out with, if you think you can help just click the link for each case and take a minute to sign the petition and to make a phone call. Each of these detainees are being held at the Broward Detention Center and all of them are low-priority cases, the same cases [...]

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Well, with your help we were able to do it, deliver a great birthday present to Cipriano’s mom that is! Yesterday, after a month in detention, Cipriano was released from the Broward Transitional Center. Cipriano’s sister, Maria, sends this note: My family would like to thank every single person from the bottom of our heart, thank you [...]

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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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