Give immigrant kids a path to college

By Ruben Navarrette Jr., CNN Contributor San Diego, California (CNN) -- The new battleground in the immigration debate is college and university campuses. And watching this fight unfold is, well, an education: -- In California, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that illegal immigrants could continue to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities -- as they do in at least 10 states -- even though out-of-state students are charged higher rates. Ma...

Court upholds in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

By Pat Flynn Illegal immigrants can continue to pay in-state tuition at California’s public colleges and universities, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday. “We’re really pleased with this judgment,” said Constance Carroll, chancellor of the San Diego Community College District, which advocated for that outcome. “As we said in our brief, this is really a matter of California law and California decision making. We feel that these young immigrants, who have bright futures, ...

Voter Guide: Brown, Whitman clash on immigration

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have both struggled to define their position on immigration during an election year in which the Latino vote is critical and tough laws in a neighboring state have made headlines. Whitman arguably has had a more difficult road, trying to find a middle ground between conservatives who favor stricter regulations and Latinos whom she needs to win. The GOP candidate, who has advocated penalizing employers who hire illegal immigrants, was also dogged by several da...

Is the DREAM Act a Military Recruiter’s Dream, too?

Yo Soy El Army - Clip from bignoisetactical on Vimeo. Activists across the country have rallied around the DREAM Act as a first step toward comprehensive immigration reform. The DREAM Act, which broadens undocumented youths’ access to higher education, basically granting conditional relief to enable students to finish their degrees, is framed as a “noncontroversial” concept that rational people, even conservative-leaning folks, would find hard to oppose on moral grounds. In fact, even the Pe...

DREAM Movement: Challenges With the Social Justice Elite’s Military Option Arguments and the Immigration Reform “Leaders”

by: Jonathan Perez, Jorge Guitierrez, Nancy Meza, and Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks...

Latino Youth Defines DREAM Act as a De Facto Military Draft

By VAMOS Unidos Youth We write this statement to raise our voices as Latino youth working and living in the Bronx, New York in opposition to the DREAM ACT as it stands. We demand that we return to our original DREAM ACT that had a community service option instead of a military one. The military has been losing their numbers due to the multiple wars the US has begun. The DREAM ACT would hand us over on a platter to fight these unjust wars. The DREAM ACT has been warped over the years to d...