The Supreme Court’s decision on the fate of DREAMers is imminent. If the justices listened to Americans in a new poll, it might help them decide more quickly; Latinos now have a slower rate than the US average when…
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As usual, it’s exhausting trying to keep up with today’s news. Maybe that’s why the US Census wants to make filling out the 2020 census as easy as a click and send; Believe it or not, there’s not a…
Almost every headline touts Joe Biden as the frontrunner among Latino voters. That could be the reason why Latino outreach has taken a back burner to other campaign outreach efforts. Whatever the reason, it was enough for Biden’s senior…
By Robert Barba LatinaLista If you’re a DREAMer, you face a difficult financial situation. In February 2018, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump Administration’s appeal challenging the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program — better known as…
By Michael Blake The Conversation On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a federal judge’s order that the Trump administration continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It was back in September 2017 that President…
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North Carolina Group Keeps Dreamers’ College Goals Alive
Jan 22, 2018, 7:57 AM 0
By Victoria Edwards Juvenile Justice Information Exchange SANFORD, North Carolina — As a high school sophomore and DACA recipient, the connections Danny Rodas made through his mentorship program were invaluable to helping him understand the challenges he would face…
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Ahead of government shutdown, Congress sets its sights on not-so-comprehensive immigration reform
Jan 19, 2018, 9:33 AM 0
By Matthew Wright The Conversation For a moment, it looked as though 2018 might be the year that ended a three-decade streak of failure to pass so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.” On Jan. 11, a bipartisan group of six senators…
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Guest Voz: More companies should follow the example of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Jan 17, 2018, 7:42 AM 0
By Edward Rincón ncluido It was indeed news shattering: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced a contribution of $33 million to 1,000 DACA program students to pay for a four-year college education. As you may know, DACA (Deferred Action…
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This Youth Worker in DACA Fears for His Future As He Helps Students in Similar Situation
Jan 10, 2018, 11:59 AM 0
By Stell Simonton Justice Information & Exchange As an undocumented student, David Blancas had to push hard to shape his future. He couldn’t drive without fear of being stopped. He couldn’t get on a plane without worrying about…
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GOP attempts to SUCCEED with new version of DREAM Act
Sep 25, 2017, 2:25 PM 0
LatinaLista — It’s called the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending our Nation Act, SUCCEED, for short and the congressional members who drafted this latest version of the 2010 DREAM Act, hope it does exactly…
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DREAMer makes a list of what-to-do in case Trump eliminates DACA
Jan 24, 2017, 4:49 PM 0
LatinaLista — With each passing day of the Trump administration, no group is more fearful of the changes – or campaign promises fulfilled by Trump — than undocumented young people known as DREAMers. One DREAMer, and former LatinaLista contributor,…
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Reaction round-up to Supreme Court’s deadlock decision on immigration executive actions
Jun 23, 2016, 12:19 PM 0
LatinaLista — The Supreme Court of the United States, or SCOTUS, as it’s known by its acronym, delivered a setback but not defeat to President Obama’s executive actions expanding deportation deferment of DREAMers (DACA) and undocumented parents of American-born children…
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Video: Hearing the voices, understanding the pain of DREAMers
Oct 29, 2015, 5:16 PM 0
LatinaLista — Undocumented students, better known as DREAMers, have both a unique and common story. Each of their stories is unique because each has a family history unique to themselves. Yet, their stories share a commonality in that each…
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Guest Voz: After 88 months in Mexico as a DREAMer, I can finally return home.
Oct 20, 2015, 12:19 PM 0
By Magdalena Loredo LatinaLista During my sophomore year of high school, I was determined to drive, to work and to go to college immediately after high school. But during the two years until I graduated, I realized I was…
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ListaPodcast: Telling the stories of deported DREAMers
Sep 24, 2015, 2:55 PM 0
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista Los Otros Dreamers is a 2014 publication that tells the stories of several DREAMers who were either deported or chose to go back to their home countries. We caught up with co-author Dr. Jill…
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Dallas home to first-ever statue dedicated to DREAMers
Sep 21, 2015, 1:44 PM 0
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista They’ve marched. They’ve sat in congressional offices. They’ve been deported. DREAMers around the nation have take a leading role in the fight for immigration reform. And on Saturday, Dallas became the first city in…
By Eileen Truax Trans-Border Institute Close to 500,000 young people from Mexican families have been deported from the United States during the last 10 years. Whether their deportation was forceful or voluntary, they return to Mexico to find that…
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Video: Visiting Mexico brings unexpected truths to DREAMers searching for identity and country
Aug 11, 2015, 4:30 PM 0
LatinaLista — Undocumented students, otherwise known as DREAMers, have been signing petitions, staging hunger strikes, marches, rallies and risking arrest for several years now. They risk exposing their legal status in the United States for one common goal —…
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Guest Voz: How do I go on DREAMing when Mexican gov’t says my U.S. college education is worthless
May 18, 2015, 3:53 PM 0
I thought the hardest part would be surviving one of the worst types of rejection one can experience – the expulsion from the country that I lived most of my life. Even more painful was to arrive to a…
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Podcast: DREAMers No More – What is Happening to Young, Undocumented Immigrant Activists?
May 11, 2015, 2:38 PM 0
Feet In Two Worlds The DREAMer movement is in flux. Once monolithic, political activism by young, undocumented immigrants has become fragmented, with some activists abandoning the fight for comprehensive immigration reform, and others focused on local efforts to support…
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Arizona leads states for rate of deferred-deportation applications
Aug 21, 2014, 1:58 PM 0
By Aubree Abril Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Arizona has the highest rate of deferred deportation applications in the nation, with two-thirds of the estimated 34,000 eligible immigrants in the state signing up, a new report says. The Migration Policy…
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HIPGive Campaign: Scholarship for Returned Dreamers
Aug 4, 2014, 10:56 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Soñadores para la Educación Young adults who return to their communities of origin often face structural and financial constraints in continuing their education, making it very challenging for them to get jobs with decent wages. Rufino…
By Von Diaz Feet in 2 Worlds Undocumented youth have been on the front lines of the struggle for immigrant rights. They call themselves DREAMers to evoke both the proposed federal DREAM Act and a hope that they, too,…
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Video: Authors of ‘Los Otros DREAMers’ share stories of deported youth in Mexico at campus event
May 6, 2014, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Anyone who has heard coverage of immigration reform over the last few years has also learned about the efforts of DREAMers, young undocumented students who were brought here to the U.S. as children and now find themselves…
