By Shannon Larson, Boston Globe Raquel Coronell Uribe had tempered her expectations as she spoke with a close friend over the phone on Sunday night in an attempt to distract herself. She knew deliberations among outgoing members of the Harvard Crimson’s masthead had ended that evening — and sooner or ...

By RAFAEL BERNAL and REBECCA BEITSCH for The Hill The social spending bill approved by the House Friday in a 220-213 vote includes the most extensive immigration reform package reviewed by Congress in 35 years, albeit in a much reduced version from what proponents originally sought. If the provision is approved ...

Click Here to Download Letter to Senate Leaders on Path to Citizenship Immigration Reform in BBB Bill (91 sigs.) By Rafael Bernal -- The Hill Photo credit: Spectrum News Nearly half of all House Democrats on Monday called on their Senate colleagues to augment the immigration protections in the House-passed ...

By Jessie Raymond, MIIS News ~ November 4, 2021 Fueled by a lifelong passion to advocate for underrepresented populations, Luz Vazquez-Ramos MPAIEM ’17 has created a unique opportunity for DACA recipients to visit their country of origin. A Long Beach, California, native who earned her bachelor’s in Chicano Latino studies at California State University, Long Beach, ...

BY KAREN GARCIA, JON HEALEY, LA Times, NOV. 9, 2021 The embattled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to shield thousands of “Dreamers” from deportation is entering an important new chapter, and you can help write it.  Launched by a memorandum from the Department of Homeland Security in 2012, the program suspended ...

Asking Senator Sinema to committ to passing reconciliation including pathway to citizenship to protect immigrants, and Senator Sinema did not answer, her silence is a betrayal, our communities are suffering family separation, detention and the loss of our loved ones on both sides of the border. "I don't recognize her, ...

POR:: UNIVISION29 SEP 2021 – 02:19 PM EDT Doscientos jóvenes soñadores vivieron la experiencia de estudiar en México, conocer sus orígenes y además tienen la oportunidad de ajustar su estatus legal, a través de esta iniciativa del Centro de Estudios California-México. FRESNO, California.- Se cree que unos 700 mil jóvenes viven bajo la protección ...

Charles Kamasaki | September 2021 Experts have noted the increasingly significant role played by the Senate Parliamentarian on the fate of critical legislation.[ii] This was never more in evidence when on September 19 and again 10 days later the Parliamentarian declined[iii] to bless inclusion of an immigration proposal on a ...

BY JENNIFER HABERKORN | STAFF WRITER | SEPT. 29, 2021 UPDATED 2:37 PM PT | Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON —  A key Senate official dealt a second blow to immigration advocates who are hoping to secure a path to citizenship in the Democrats’ social spending bill, ruling Wednesday that a second proposal would not comply ...

By Daniel Wiessner / REUTERS Sep. 27, 2021 Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Biden administration proposed a rule on Monday that would move an estimated 700,000 immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children to the back of the line to be deported, in a bid to preserve an ...