CMSC Advocates for 2 Rhodes Scholar Dreamers as Advance Parole victory is spared from racist Texas court's ruling
The CMSC’s success in restoring DACA’s Advance Parole was not affected by the recent Texas federal court that ruled DACA is unconstitutional. At the same time, the CMSC has continued to advocate for Jin Park (Harvard) and Santiago Tobar Potes (Columbia), the first 2 Dreamers accepted into the prestigious Rhodes Scholars Program.
Jin and Santiago have been waiting 8 months for approval of their educational Advance Parole applications and have only 1 month to report to Oxford University, before they forfeit this most highly regarded scholarship and graduate program.
To read about Jin and Santiago’s success stories and the significance of their academic accomplishments, go to:
FIRST LATINO DACA RECIPIENT WINS RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
I’M A DREAMER AND A RHODES SCHOLAR. WHERE DO I BELONG?
RHODES SCHOLAR AND ‘DREAMER’ FEARS HE CAN’T RETURN TO US BECAUSE OF DACA UNCERTAINTY
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CMSC's 2nd group of 45 Dreamers returns safe and healthy, and now with a legal entry they can be sponsored for permanent residence
| The CMSC’s second group of Dreamers returned from Mexico after their month-long study abroad travel on July 18, 2021, and all have returned via LAX without any problems or delay due to the collaboration provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, who have been respectful and professional in processing the Advance Parole permits of our 80 Winter Program participants. The final phase of this summer’s program will take place over the next 3 weeks, when over 130 Dreamers will return legally to the U.S., in 3 groups of 45 each on Sundays August 8, 15 and 22, 2021. All 210 participants of this summer’s CMSC Dreamers Study Abroad Program will return after completing an ethnographic research paper on the origins and migration of their family, participation in the week-long academic program provided to them during the last week of their travel and re-enter legally into the U.S. as a group via the L.A. International Airport. |
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What's next for DACA: Court battles and pressure on Congress
Pressure has intensified on Congress to find a legislative solution for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants after a Texas federal judge struck down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shielded them against deportation and provided other protections.
Liberal lawmakers who spent weeks pushing for the inclusion of immigration provisions in the upcoming budget reconciliation bill said the need to enshrine permanent legal protections for immigrants into law is greater than ever following Friday’s ruling that affected the Obama-era program. Read Full Article
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Dreamers Pushing for Legalization After Devastating DACA Ruling
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR
Republican officials in Texas are celebrating a major political win after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action. It has faced numerous Republican-led legal challenges and subsequent court rulings as well as an outright suspension of the program during Donald Trump’s administration. In spite of a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that upheld it, a new Texas federal court ruling by a known anti-immigrant judge named Andrew Hanen deemed the program “illegal,” leaving the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in limbo once more.
One such immigrant is Fatima Flores, the political director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), who just a week and a half before the ruling had renewed her DACA status. Had Hanen’s ruling come before her renewal, Flores would likely have been among those immigrants at risk of losing her status given that no new applications are being processed.
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Judge orders end to DACA in 'a blaring siren' for Democrats
HOUSTON — Immigrants and advocates are urging Democrats and President Biden to quickly act on legislation to protect young immigrants after a federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled illegal an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of them brought into the U.S. as children.
Plaintiffs have vowed to appeal the decision by U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program illegal, barring the government from approving any new applications but leaving the program intact for existing recipients.
Calling the ruling a “blaring siren” for Democrats, United We Dream Executive Director Greisa Martinez Rosas said they would be solely to blame if legislative reform doesn’t happen.
“Until the president and Democrats in Congress deliver on citizenship, the lives of millions will remain on the line,” Martinez Rosas said.View Note
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Biden says U.S. will appeal DACA ruling and congress must act
LA Times – July 17, 2021
BY JENNY LEONARD AND LAUREL CALKINS / BLOOMBERG
WASHINGTON —
President Biden said the U.S. will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the DACA program protecting hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” who came to the country as children was implemented unconstitutionally, and he renewed his call for Congress to agree on a permanent solution.
“Yesterday’s Federal court ruling is deeply disappointing,” Biden said in a statement Saturday. “The Department of Justice intends to appeal this decision in order to preserve and fortify DACA.”
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of Houston issued his ruling Friday in a suit brought by Republican-led states over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was implemented by the Obama administration on behalf of almost 650,000 Dreamers fighting to stay in the country.
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Dulce Garcia: DACA recipient returns to Mexico to help asylum seekers
It has been more than 30 years since DACA recipient and lawyer Dulce Garcia stepped foot in Mexico. A moment she thought was impossible, until now.
Dulce shared her emotional return back to Mexico, and how she’s helping asylum seekers from both sides of the border.
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The 2021 program’s cohort of 210 participants
represents Dreamers from 90 universities
and 28 U.S. states
This daring but imminent program for Dreamers was worth the challenge, given Trump’s obsession to eliminate DACA and the Biden administration’s delay that led to the CMSC’s legal pressure to approve the Dreamers’ Advance Parole travel permits for this summer.
But this has required much higher costs and protective measures that include 24/7 attention provided by a 5-person medical team for 3.5 months to all Dreamers and CMSC staff, throughout the month-long travel for each of the 210 participants in 5 groups.
Thus, the CMSC is more than ever in dire need for grants funding support, sponsors, and donors, to cover the additional costs for medical attention and COVID testing, individual hotel rooms and half-capacity buses for field trips and airport transportation.
Our goal is to raise $50,000 by the end of August 2021 and with this edition of “El Magonista” we’re launching our fund drive to fully provide a safe and healthy return of all 210 participants of the Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program. Profe Armando Vazquez-Ramos.
Please consider sponsoring our program today!!!
To be a sponsor contact Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos at: armando@calmexcenter.org or 562-972-0986
To donate directly from $25 - $2,500 click herePlease support the CMSC's 2021 projects, initiatives, and campaigns, including our advocacy to provide and facilitate our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole and our Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
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