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Demand for UC immigrant student legal services soars as Trump policies sow uncertainty
By: Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2017 Maria Blanco did a double take when the Google alert popped up in her inbox late last week: President Trump had reversed ... -
'Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Long-Term Fate Is Unclear
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, New York Times ~ JUNE 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump will not immediately eliminate protections for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United ... -
Immigration agents came for our student
By: Beth Baker and Alejandra Marchevsky, Los Angeles Times ~ June 8, 2017 On the morning of May 18, Cal State Los Angeles student Claudia Rueda disappeared in East L.A. The ... -
‘If We Are Deported, Who Benefits?’
What happened to me could happen to any one of the 750,000 young people whose entire lives depend on the endangered Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. By JESSICA COLOTL, ... -
Trump Budget Takes Broad Aim at Undocumented Immigrants
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and RON NIXON, The New York Times ~ MAY 25, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s first budget offers up dramatic policy shifts and hundreds of millions of dollars ... -
Trump Budget Would Slash Student Aid and Research
By: Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed ~ May 24, 2017 The Trump administration released a 2018 budget proposal Tuesday that delivered on expectations for drastic cuts to student aid programs and ... -
Mexican DREAMers Use Fiction to Share Their Immigration Reality
Young immigrants will present their work at AQ’s May 18 launch event. BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL, Americas Quarterly ~ MAY 17, 2017 Paper plays an outsized role in Amalia Rojas’ life. A ... -
Dreamers speak on why they dare to travel to Mexico although they fear they will ...
This group of young undocumented students gets ready to visit their home country facing the new and tough immigration policies of the Trump era. Upon their return they plan to cross the ... -
Eight Steps to Establish Support Systems for Undocumented Students
By: Kevin Escudero, Diverse Issues in Higher Ed ~ May 8, 2017 For students who arrived in the U.S. before their 16th birthday, the federal program that provides benefits to undocumented ... -
The stress of immigrants’ children
By Sonali Kohli, L.A. Times ~ May 8, 2017 It was hard not to eavesdrop in the tiny Pico-Union studio where Maria Garcia grew up. She was around 9 when her ...