08/18/11 Today the Obama Administration announced significant changes to deportation practices bringing them in line with enforcement priorities. The Administration responded to the call for administrative action with significant changes that, if implemented fully and fairly, will focus immigration enforcement on the worst of the worst, not the best and the brightest.
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08/18/11 Earlier this month, there were news stories circulating on the interwebs about a mysterious announcement Senator Durbin had made in a meeting with the Chicago Tribune's editorial board.
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08/04/11 The push for Obama to grant administrative relief to DREAM Act students is still strong, with a very good piece yesterday highlighting the plight of undocumented youth who constantly face the threat of deportation.
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08/03/11 Rep. Elton Gallegly's hometown paper, the Ventura County Star, editorialized in support of Californian's DREAM Act and noted the failure of federal authorities to deal with this issue. Gallegly is one of the federal authorities who deserves a lot of the blame.
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07/20/11 Bloomberg reports that a "first-of-its-kind Immigration Enforcement Review Board" is being established in this peachy, anti-immigrant state. It's described by some as a "a mini-McCarthy panel."
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07/15/11 In the latest news regarding undocumented immigrant students, the California Senate has moved forward with a state version of the DREAM Act. Yesterday, state senators approved AB-130, by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles).
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07/13/11 The battle to stop Alberto Yanez's deportation is far from over, but at least it has been delayed for another year. Alberto Yanez -- father of three American citizens, brother of two American citizens, and a passionate DREAMer -- saw major breakthrough when he was granted a one year stay of deportation through January of next year.
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07/07/11 Anyone who wondered why America's Voice gave Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) the "hypocrite of the year" award in January only had to watch his performance at last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the DREAM Act. His "performance" was filled with misinformation, cynicism and demagoguery.
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07/05/11 Alberto Yanez is a hard-working student, a committed young father, and an ambitious DREAMer. He came to the United States from Mexico in 1988 when he was just a year old. Raised in California, Yanez moved to Washington with his family after his junior year in high school. He has been living there ever since.
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07/01/11 It's apt that this coming Monday is Independence Day, because it's been inspiring to see so many students stand up to speak about why they love America and why they are Americans. Watch our short clip from the DREAMers below, and happy Fourth of July!
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06/30/11 Last week, just hours before Mandeep and her mother were scheduled to be deported to India, we learned that immigration officials changed their minds and canceled the deportation. At the last minute, she was given a one year stay of deportation. This was no doubt thank to the thousands of supporters who took action to keep her at home in California.
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06/29/11 One day after the Senate held its first-ever hearing on the DREAM Act, DREAMers, activists, and allies descended on the Capitol again to stage a special graduation ceremony for the "Deportation Class of 2011." Hundreds of DREAMers from all over the country, born in all different parts of the world, roamed around the historic Kennedy Caucus Room wearing all different colors and styles of gowns.
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06/29/11 Over 200 DREAMers, wearing caps and gowns, will present the Deportation Class of 2011 in a ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill today. Speakers include Senator Durbin, Jose Antonio Vargas, undocumented young Pulitzer Prize winner and Mandeep Chahal.
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06/29/11 As DREAMers in Washington, DC, were preparing to introduce America to the "Deportation Class of 2011," a number of brave undocumented students in Atlanta, Georgia took a stand for their community as they protested the state's latest set of draconian immigration laws.
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06/28/11 Ten years after it was first introduced, the DREAM Act got its first ever hearing in the Senate today, giving hundreds of DREAMers in the audience and around the country some measure of renewed hope as Senate Democrats took up the issue once again.
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06/28/11 This morning's Senate DREAM Act hearing featured Ola Kaso, a DREAM Act student with a 4.4 GPA from Detroit, Michigan. Though she was brought to the United States when she was just four years old, just last month she found herself fighting deportation to a country she barely knows.
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06/27/11 As we reported last week, the DREAM Act is getting its first-ever Senate hearing tomorrow, despite having been first introduced in 2001 and being reintroduced multiple times since then.
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06/24/11 Almost ten years after the DREAM Act was introduced for the first time in 2001, the bill will now receive its first ever senate hearing next Tuesday -- and we have Senator Durbin to thank for it.
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06/20/11 Last Friday, at Netroots Nation in Minneapolis, Minnesotam White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer sat down to take questions from a political base none too happy with President Obama's first-term shortcomings. We heard his panel got pretty ugly.
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06/20/11 On Wednesday, a flight is leaving for India and President Obama's immigration officials want Mandeep -- a DREAM Act student -- on it, despite the fact that she was once voted as "Most Likely to Save the World" by her peers at Los Altos High School in Mountain View.
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06/16/11 The Online team at America's Voice is blogging live from the conference in Minneapolis. Check back here for updates throughout the day!
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06/06/11 Isaias Vasquez, just graduated with honors from Bruce Randolph in Denver. That's a school praised by President Obama in the State of the Union. But, Isaias is a DREAMer and his options are limited. He wrote a letter to the President, which appeared over the weekend in the Denver Post.
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06/02/11 America's favorite distraction Sarah Palin continued her will-she-or-won't-she-run-for-President bus tour yesterday with a visit to New York's Ellis Island and the "Statute" of Liberty and took time to ruminate about immigration.
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05/26/11 Gaby Pacheco is the author of "The Girl Who Could", the second children's book that this young undocumented woman has written. She has become the face of the national movement advocating for the DREAM Act and, just like the girl in the book, she has (and continues to) overcome obstacles to achieve her goals.
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05/20/11 We dedicate this post to the many DREAMers who are graduating from high school and college this spring. To those students: keep hope alive, and continue to inspire us all with your hard work and dedication to your dreams.
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05/18/11 Last week, DREAMers and members of Florida's interfaith community came together to thank Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) for sponsoring the reintroduction of the DREAM Act.
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05/16/11 Criticism has arisen from DREAM activists and progressive bloggers over the politicization of the DREAM Act by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
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