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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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The Senate immigration bill dropped last night and after reading through the entirety of the legislation, I’ve done a synopsis of what I consider good, bad and ugly. If you are undocumented and/or directly impacted by this legislation, I encourage you to please send in your thoughts about its drawbacks and how it can be [...]

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A shorter version of this article was posted at The Huffington Post. How did we build an immigrant rights movement? As undocumented queer immigrants, we learned from our own experiences. Frank Sharry’s latest opinion piece in the Washington Post extols the gay rights movement for teaching the immigrant rights movement how to fight, and in [...]

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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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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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Beware a common mistake about Senator Marco Rubio cropping up again. For nearly a year now, we have heard that Rubio’s relief proposal for undocumented youth prevented you from becoming a citizen, i.e. “no path to citizenship.” Last year, some went even so far as to accuse Rubio of creating a “second-class citizenship” for undocumented youth [...]

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When Manuel was 17 he was at a party with his younger brother when everything went wrong; his brother was shot and left for dead. Manuel rushed his brother to the hospital but it was too late, he was dead. Now 23, Manuel remembers this as a life-changing event in his life; he went from [...]

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The Deferred Action Waiver Fund (otherwise known as “DACAF”) is a fund set up to award undocumented activists with a scholarship to cover the fee associated with applying for Deferred Action. The Department of Homeland Security has set this fee at $465. We recognize that many of the activists we work with on a daily [...]

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As of today, the USCIS has revised guidelines up on its site with quite a lot of new information regarding the deferred action process, applications for which will be out on August 15. USCIS will NOT be accepting application until Aug. 15th. If you submit now, your application will be returned. The fee will be $465 as previously revealed. [...]

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