DREAM Act would light a path for citizenship

Foes see bill as amnesty for illegal immigrants; backers hope lame-duck Congress will help college students, military recruits By Pat Flynn and Morgan Lee Saray Flores, 22, and her niece Layla Flores, 3, hold candles during a candlelight vigil for the DREAM Act on Park Boulevard Monday. The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) could come up for vote before Congress soon. K.C. Alfred • U-T Document Download: The DREAM Act -- Text of Pending Bill...

AFSC Action Alert on DREAM Act

Dear Friend, This week, Congress plans to introduce the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act). if expanded and improved to include community service, this important piece of legislation will offer 2.1 million immigrant youth a conditional six-year path to permanent U.S. residence. The conditions would be that they complete high school, demonstrate good moral character and complete at least two years of higher education or U.S. military service. Tell Cong...

Should Congress pass the DREAM Act for immigrant children? Yes or No?

YES: The legislation gives incentives for learning and rewards hard work. By Jerry Gonzalez Seventy-four thousand. That’s the number of undocumented youth in Georgia who could potentially benefit from the passage of the DREAM Act, according to a recent report issued by the Migration Policy Institute. These children were brought to this country by their parents at very young ages, and through no fault of their own are undocumented. We as taxpayers have invested in their k-12 educat...

Report: Immigrant Women Exploited In U.S. Food Industry

Jennifer Schultz Courtesy of Creative Commons The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report Monday exposing the abuse and exploitation that immigrant women face in the U.S. food industry. The report states that undocumented immigrant women in the food industry face sexual abuse, constant humiliation, hazardous work conditions and continually declining pay.  The report chronicles the lives of immigrant women from the time they crossed the border to their current workplace ...

Opposition grows against Secure Communities immigration program

by Gloria Pazmiño and Debralee Santos Struggle lays ahead for New York State’s immigrant community. That was the consensus during a discussion about the controversial federal program known as Secure Communities during an immigration forum held by the Barack Obama Democratic Club (BODC) in Northern Manhattan on Wed., Nov. 18. Secure Communities is under fire for requiring local governments and police to share information with the federal government and Homeland Security. The informat...

BNHR Statement: El Paso named safest U.S. City

SUCCESS ACCOMPLISHED DUE TO COMMUNITY TRUST ON LAW ENFORCEMENT. El Paso, TX –The Border Network for Human Rights, a 13-year-old community organizing group with about 4,000 members in El Paso and Southern New Mexico, is happy, but not surprised about the recent ranking of El Paso as the safest City of the Country by CQ Press, a publishing firm based in Washington D.C. Border Network strongly believes that this accomplishment is due to the trust that communities have towards law enforcement ...