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12/10/12

Child advocates have fought for years against the deportation of promising undocumented students. A bill in Congress to recognize them has failed before, but new action on the Hill gives us hope. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, Act is a bill to protect from...

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Jacquelyn Lendsey

12/10/12

Members of Congress from both parties are, once again, becoming more vocal about the need to address our broken immigration system. It seemingly happened overnight (the night of November 6th, election night, to be exact), and has been gaining momentum since. This momentum brings excitement to an...

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Helly Lee

12/10/12

Photo : Gustavo Torres, president of Casa in Action and board member of Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), center, and community advocates during a rally of immigrant rights in front of the White House after the November 2012 election. (Credit: CASA in Action). Immigration reform has been...

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Gustavo Torres

12/10/12

Hope. After families and friends have been torn apart, hope is what is left. A personal friend of mine went through hardship concerning immigration. His father was caught by ICE while working. His whole family was devastated, because they didn’t know when they were going to be able to see him again...

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Gamito Diaz

Immigration

12/10/12

Like so many others in the United States, I am a product of the American immigration system. I was twelve when my mother and brother took a long plane ride from Kerala (India) to Kentucky to join my father. We had been separated for a year from him as he navigated the Immigration and Naturalization...

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Deepa Iyer

Immigration

12/10/12

Immigrant workers across this country face a distinct threat: unscrupulous employers intimidate or retaliate against them if they complain about illegal working conditions. Employers actually have an incentive to recruit foreign workers because they can exploit this vulnerability to underpay and...

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Judy Chu

12/10/12

I wrote this piece for The Hill newspaper and wanted to share it with all of you as well. We’re at an exciting moment in our shared history. Comprehensive immigration reform is entirely possible in the 113th Congress and we need all hands on deck in order to pass it. I look forward to working with...

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Mike Honda

12/10/12

America's immigration system is broken. Children are separated from their parents, husbands are separated from their wives, and businesses are suffering without efficient workers needed for economic stability. Immigrant families without a breadwinner are struggling to keep their heads above water...

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Charles Rangel

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12/10/12

Congress is likely to remain in session until Christmas Eve -- wrangling over the looming sequester and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. The country doesn't have enough money, or doesn't spend it right, or the rich have too much of it, or the middle class doesn't have enough, or the poor get too...

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Martha Burk

Immigration

12/10/12

There is renewed hope that comprehensive immigration reform will now be possible in Washington, D.C., following the November election that saw Latino and Asian American voters turning out in record numbers. The failure to pass comprehensive reform at the federal level has been a major...

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