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Over 150,000 DREAMers have been approved for Deferred Action
WASHINGTON, DC - The number of DREAMers approved for deferred action continued to rise in February, even as incoming applications dwindled.
To date, 154,404 young undocumented immigrants have been approved for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama administration program active since August. The program gives DREAMers permission to live and work legally in the U.S.
The latest figures, released today by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) show that even as more .... |
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Ya Es Hora ¡Ciudadania! Arkansas Campaign renewed commitment to Citizenship
LITTLE ROCK, AR - To promote the value of U.S. citizenship and to assist eligible legal permanent residents in navigating the naturalization process, Ya Es Hora ¡CIUDADANIA! Arkansas Campaign held a free workshop Saturday, March 31st.
Since the national campaign’s launch, it has contributed to the record 2 million eligible immigrant residents who applied for U.S. citizenship in 2011, held 300 assistance workshops, and fielded more than 100, 000 calls to the referral hotline.
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Kansas seeks waiver for illegal immigrants
TOPEKA, KS - Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman is seeking a federal waiver that would allow companies to hire illegal immigrants. Facing pressure from large dairies and feedlots desperate for workers, Rodman has met several times with officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about launching a pilot program that would place employers and illegal immigrants in a special state-organized network.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that the goal is to create a legal, str.... |
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Secretary Duncan calls the Dream ACT “Common sense legislation”
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress today that the Administration supports passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, for two basic reasons: it’s crucial for meeting our national goals and future workforce needs, and also sends the right message about the value of hard work and our Nation’s basic sense of fairness.
In testimony at the first-ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act before the Subcommittee on Immigratio.... |
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Democrats ask Obama to stop deportations of students
WASHINGTON, DC - A broad spectrum of the Democratic Senate caucus yesterday issued a letter to President Obama urging him to use his authority and grant relief from deportation to young people who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. The twenty-two senators wrote that they "would support a grant of deferred action" and other measures to grant relief to qualified DREAM students and reiterated their support for the DREAM Act, which passed the House of Representatives and received the support of.... |
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President Obama asked to keep families together
WASHINGTON, DC – In El Salvador, during his visit to Latin America, President Barack Obama called for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. He also said: “America is a nation of laws, and it is a nation of immigrants. And so our job is to create secure borders, to make sure that we've got a legal immigration system that is effective and is not frustrating for families, doesn't divide families.”
The same evening, the New York Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security h.... |
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San Antonio: The 'New Face of the American Dream'
SAN ANTONIO, TX - New demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms San Antonio's rising prominence as one of America's fastest growing big cities, fueled by explosive growth in the Hispanic population and a growing job base in 21st century industries.
While many large cities in the Northeast and other parts of America continued to lose population, San Antonio grew to 1.32 million residents, likely retaining its position as the nation's seventh-largest city.
The latest Census num.... |
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DREAM Act: “We will give a good fight”
WASHINGTON, DC - At the end of the last Congress's legislative session, President Barack Obama said his biggest legislative frustration was the failure of the DREAM Act to legalize undocumented youth. Earlier this year he said the U.S. should not deport these young people but to take advantage of their talent to benefit the nation.
Now the dreamers are ready to ask Congress and the Obama Administration for concrete actions, and plan to hold a national congress in Memphis, Tennessee from Mar.... |
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Why the DREAM Act wont cost us money
If you take a serious look at our alternatives on immigration policy and dealing with the population of immigrants in the country illegally, we really do not have many choices. Mass deportation or policies designed to spark a mass exodus are clearly beyond the scope of reality.
Moving an estimated 12 million men, women, and children out of the country is a fantasy that only a few staunch opponents of immigration reform continue to embrace. Like it or not, and despite our record-breaking de.... |
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Arizona’s Immigration Law and the cost of cancelled conventions
WASHINGTON, DC - The lucrative convention and conference business is the backbone of Arizona’s tourism industry and it has been significantly hurt by the state’s enactment in April of harsh anti-immigration legislation.
The industry’s losses will cost the state $253 million in economic output and more than $86 million in lost wages over the next two to three years, according to a report commissioned by the Center for American Progress.
The study, conducted by Arizona-based Elliott D. P.... |
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Arkansas Senators deny passage of DREAM Act
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Senate failed to muster the 60 votes needed to move forward the Defense authorization bill, including the DREAM Act amendment.
Both Arkansas senators, Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) were the only two Democrats to vote against the measure.
“The immigration reform movement and immigrant youth were stymied by an obstinate minority more interested in scoring political points than in delivering for Arkansans and the American people. Senators caved, again, .... |
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President Obama signs $600 million border security bill
WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million bill in a low-key Oval Office ceremony to beef up security on the U.S. border with Mexico, as Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano watched on Friday, August 13, 2010.
A modest election-year victory that underscores the president’s failure to deliver an overhaul of immigration law.
The bill fell short by the standards Obama has set for dealing with the immigration problem.
Napolitano said lat.... |
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Secure Arkansas proposal on immigration reform disqualified
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Secretary of State Charlie Daniels says supporters of a proposal to deny state services to illegal immigrants did not gather enough signatures to get the measure on the Arkansas November ballot.
Daniels said Friday, July 9 that the group only submitted 67,542 signatures.
The proposal is disqualified from the ballot because not enough signatures were submitted.
Secure Arkansas collected signatures for a ballot initiative to amend the Arkansas Constitution.
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Immigrants hunger strike in search for a DREAM
RALEIGH, NC -- Rosario Lopez, 25; Viridiana Martinez, 23; and Loida Silva, 22, set up tents across the street from the state legislative building in downtown Raleigh and have subsisted on water, Pedialyte and Gatorade since June 14.
The three young women living illegally in the U.S. since childhood haven't eaten in more than a week in the hope of persuading U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan to back a bill that could make them legal residents.
But they were unable to convince Hagan, a Democrat whose st.... |
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Harvard student will not be deported
BOSTON, MA -- An undocumented Harvard University student is no longer facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, officials said.
Eric Balderas, a 19 year-old aspiring molecular and cellular biology concentrator, was stopped by TSA officials in his hometown on June 7 when he tried to board a plane from San Antonio to Boston using a Mexican consulate card and his Harvard student identification.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement s.... |
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