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Senate must vote now to save DACA, provide path to citizenship for immigrant ‘dreamers’
We must think about the consequences of Senate inaction in human terms. Ending DACA will shatter the lives of nearly 2 million people in our country who were brought here as children. By Rep. Jesus Garcia | Chicago Sun-Times | NOV. 2, 2022 | Photo by AP We are running ... -
DACA recipients seeking Congressional action to protect them
By Whitney Downard | The Lebanon Reporter | NOV. 3, 2022 | After 20 years of living in the United States, Pamela Chomba and her sister – both DACA recipients – decided it was time to buy a house where they lived in Washington, D.C. But that same year, 2021, ... -
Student Loan Forgiveness Denial Another Reason to Cast a Vote
By Emil Guillermo | The Sacramento Observer | NOV. 2, 2022 (NNPA) – Of all the eligible voters in our country, just 10% actually do, according to a recent Unite America Institute study. Don’t you want to be in that minority? You have to register first. And if you think ... -
Study examines birth weight outcomes for babies born to mothers eligible for DACA
The study found an improvement in birth weight for babies born to immigrant moms from 2012 to 2015, when DACA started. By Kassandra Gutierrez | ABC-30 (Fresno) | NOV. 1, 2022 | Photo by Jose Luis Rodriguez FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State and the University of California San Francisco have ... -
The Time Is Now for a Deal on the Dreamers
Analysis by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post | NOV. 1, 2022 | Photo by Bloomberg No issue better illustrates the difficulty of immigration reform than the plight of the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, who were brought to the US as children. Years of ... -
About Those “LA Audio Tapes” and How to Heal Los Angeles: We Have Questions
By Jorge H. Rodriguez | The Stansbury Forum | OCT. 22, 2022 | Photo from Library of Congress The words spoken by several prominent elected Mexican, Latina(@) officials in 2021, and recently revealed on tape, were prejudicial, discriminatory, mean, and hurtful to everyone they were directed at. But they were ... -
El Magonista Newsletter | Vol. 10, No. 40 | November 1, 2022
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 10, No. 40 | November 1, 2022 DEADLINE EXTENDED Summer 2023 Dreamers Study Abroad Applications due November 18, 2022 In order to accommodate as many eligible Dreamers as possible, our program has added additional spots and sessions to next summer's schedule. As ... -
El Magonista | Vol. 10, No. 39 | October 27, 2022
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 10, No. 39 | October 27, 2022 CLOSING MONDAY: Summer 2023 Dreamers Study Abroad Application SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Check out our most recent Facebook Live Q&A LATEST NEWS WITH DACA ON LIFE SUPPORT, MICROSOFT, APPLE AND OTHER BIG U.S. ... -
Federal Court Rules DACA unlawful, impacting over half a million ‘dreamers’
By: Natali Gonzalez | The Daily Aztec | OCT. 26, 2022 | Photo courtesy of Latinx Resource Center @ SDSU A federal appeals court found the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals program, which protects “dreamers” who came to the United States as children, to be unlawful. On Oct. 5, a panel ... -
Students, Legal Scholars Urge UC System to Break Legal Ground by Hiring Undocumented Students
By: Amber Frias | NBC San Diego | OCT. 27, 2022 | Photo by Scott Henrichsen Thousands of undocumented UC students have lived most of their lives in the U.S., attended school in this country, and grown up as Americans in every way possible, yet due to their legal status, ...
