Immigration News Coverage

It’s all about immigration…

06/09/11 | La Opinion | Latino voters have very real and concrete concerns about the absence of an immigration policy that addresses our times. A majority of Latinos personally know someone who is undocumented and a quarter of Latino voters say they have direct knowledge of someone who has been deported or is undergoing deportation proceedings. | Read the story

No rational argument against Dream Act

12/16/10 | Arizona Republic | If the focus is on the young people themselves, the case for the Dream Act is impenetrable. They have been brought up in this country...the evidence is unequivocal: those with two years of college or military training pay their own way in life. | Read the story

Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Dream Act Dance

12/16/10 | Washington Post | Speaking on the Senate floor in 2007 about a virtually identical bill, she said: "This is such an important piece of legislation, and I do think this is isolated from the entire immigration issue because there . . . are young people who have been brought to this country as minors, not of their own doing, who have gone to American high schools, graduated, and who want to go to American colleges." | Read the story

The military needs the DREAM Act

12/15/10 | Anchorage Press | In its FY10-12 Strategic Plan, the Department of Defense identified the DREAM Act as a smart way to expand the pool of potential candidates because it lets high achieving young people enlist. | Read the story

Tucker: Defeating the DREAM bill would be a truly stupid act

12/13/10 | Saratogian | Are we really that sort of country? Are we really a nation so narrow-minded and nativist that we would deny citizenship to bright and talented young adults with the brains to become surgeons, engineers or astronauts? Are we so grimly determined to punish illegal border-crossings that we would deport young men and women who want to fight for the United States in Afghanistan? | Read the story

Rep. Charles Rangel: Why The DREAM Act Is So Important

12/13/10 | Huffington Post | If morality does not move the Senate, then sheer economic self-interest should. The more our talented students are forced into the dark in fear of being deported, the greater the loss in potential tax revenue. In some of them we might just have the next Einstein, the next Bill Gates, or the next great American who might discover a cure for cancer or employ thousands of workers. | Read the story

Cornyn should do right on DREAM Act now

12/13/10 | San Antonio Express News | Sen. John Cornyn expresses sympathy for students who would be affected by the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, and yet he doesn't think he can help them just yet...[Martin Luther King Jr.] wrote..."the time is always ripe to do what's right.” | Read the story

The Dream Act affects more than Latinos

12/12/10 | Washington Post | Senate Republicans can obfuscate, but arguments about costs and laws are so flimsy when it comes to the House-approved Dream Act that if they block it this week, as seems likely, they will be joining with those nativists and haters who regularly tell me and other Latinos to leave America. | Read the story

Dream Act merits McCain, Kyl help

12/10/10 | Arizona Republic | In the real world, rejecting the Dream Act is a betrayal of the future. It is unjust to innocent children. It robs the nation of the talents of eager, young people. It perpetuates the folly that all those who are in the U.S. illegally can be deported or made to disappear. John McCain and Jon Kyl can be leaders and help get the Dream Act through Congress this year. | Read the story

An American DREAM

12/08/10 | Poliico | Let’s start with a tale of two students. Both were raised in U.S. suburbs and attended American schools, where they pledged allegiance to the U.S. flag every morning. Both got good grades and played on their schools’ teams with their classmates. Both dream of earning a college degree, pursuing a good job and building their own American families. | Read the story

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