Leaders of the undocumented youth movement in the United States have crossed the border into Mexico, and plan to turn themselves in alongside other undocumented youth who left or were deported from the United States at a border crossing next week. With applications for legal admission in hand, they will demand to be allowed to return home to the United States.
The New York Dream Act would allow undocumented students who meet in-state tuition requirements to access state financial aid for higher education. An estimated 146,000 youth in New York who have been educated in New York public schools are currently ineligible to receive financial aid under federal and state law. Of the more than 4,500 undocumented students who graduate from New York high schools every year, only 5-10% pursue a college degree due to tremendous financial obstacles.
On March 14 2012, Tania Chairez and Jessica Hyejin Lee, openly undocumented and unafraid mujeres, blocked traffic in an act of civil disobedience in front of ICE headquarters in Philadelphia. They risked deportation to free Miguel Garcia, another undocumented youth who has been in ICE detention for more than 8 months, separated from his wife and U.S. citizen sons.
How threatening are undocumented immigrants? This chart will help determine who we want in this country as opposed to who we want to deport.
Attention: You can't take candy such as a Kinder surprise egg across the border. Because guns don't kill people, Kinder eggs do!
The GOP has taken the country back. All the way to 1868! Who kidnapped the GOP leadership and replaced them with pod people? Once champions of comprehensive immigration reform, these white male Republicans want to revisit the 14th Amendment in order to repeal birthright citizenship! This is just a starter list of the wingnuts that have taken back their country. Take action here: http://j.mp/GOPnuts
"Waves of brown people are streaming across our border, joining violent gangs, forcing families to live in fear. And what's Harry Reid doing about it? Voting to give them Social Security benefits, tax breaks, and college tuition. Voting against declaring English our national language -- twice. And even siding with Obama and the President of Mexico to block Arizona's unconstitutional new immigration law. Harry Reid, it's clear whose side he's on -- he is with the Latinos and not with you white people."
You'd think it's 2010 and we should not be seeing or hearing these things but we are and it is disturbing to say the least. Is it a wonder that all the ads below come from GOP candidates? In no particular order:
Some whacky, some funny, some serious reasons to pass the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students in the United States. There is currently no other way for them to legalize their status.
Multicultural, I guess. Non-toxic, debatable. (via)
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