Immigration News Coverage
How the Dream Act transcends politics
12/07/10 | Washington Post | It would be difficult to define a more sympathetic group of potential Americans. They must demonstrate that they are law-abiding and education-oriented. Some seek to defend the country they hope to join. The Defense Department supports the Dream Act as a source of quality volunteers. Business groups welcome a supply of college-educated workers. | Read the story
Opinion: Why the DREAM Act Won’t Cost Us Money
12/06/10 | Fox News | If you take a serious look at our alternatives on immigration policy and dealing with the population of immigrants in the country illegally, we really do not have many choices. Mass deportation or policies designed to spark a mass exodus are clearly beyond the scope of reality. | Read the story
DREAM Act would be small step in right direction
12/03/10 | San Francisco Chronicle | The Senate has a chance to take a small but humane step in solving the complexities of illegal immigration. Passage would also show that deeply divided Washington can find common ground. The DREAM Act deserves to be passed. | Read the story
Congress can help young immigrants fulfill their promise through the DREAM Act
12/01/10 | Washington Post | Michelle Rodriguez, who turns 24 in a few days, has wanted to be a Marine ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when she was in ninth grade. | Read the story
Harsh realities of a broken immigration system: editorial
11/30/10 | Plain Dealer | No matter where Americans stand on illegal immigration, forcing a mother to decide, after more than a decade of productive residence in this nation, whether her children should be uprooted from the only life they've known or effectively become orphans (Maldonado's husband Diego was deported weeks ago) does not reflect this nation's highest values. | Read the story
Dreaming of Reform
11/30/10 | New York Times | If the Dream Act passes, credit must go to those who have fought for it most strenuously, at greater personal risk and inconvenience than anyone else: the young people whose futures it will decide. Thousands of students, calling themselves “undocumented and unafraid,” have led an admirable campaign of advocacy under the threat of arrest and deportation. | Read the story
A dream come true?
11/28/10 | Chicago Tribune | A rational approach to comprehensive immigration reform should begin with the young people who were brought here as babies, toddlers and adolescents. A nation as kind as ours should not turn its back on them. Congress needs to support the sensible, humane approach embodied in legislation known as the Dream Act. | Read the story
Our DREAM students
11/24/10 | Los Angeles Times | We can't close the door on their futures just because they're undocumented. "Is there anything you can do so that my life does not come to a stop when I graduate from Seattle University in two years?" | Read the story
Dream Act kids facing a political nightmare
11/24/10 | Arizona Republic | This isn't the Thanksgiving they dreamed about when they were camped on the corner of 16th Street and Missouri Avenue, near Sen. John McCain's office. They are Americans in every way but birth and there was a time when politicians on both sides of the aisle recognized the cruelty and the waste of not letting them give back to the country where they were raised and educated. | Read the story
DREAM Act: Supporting our students
11/24/10 | Politico | If you knew that by passing legislation to allow 2.1 million American students to pursue higher education or military service, our government could collect $3.6 trillion over the next 40 years, would you do it? | Read the story



