Jacquelyn L. Lendsey is the President and CEO of Voices for America’s Children, the nation’s largest network of multi-issue child advocacy organizations.
Jacquelyn Lendsey
Jacquelyn L. Lendsey is the President and CEO of Voices for America’s Children, the nation’s largest network of multi-issue child advocacy organizations.
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December 10, 2012
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 deportation undocumented students who have kept clean records and were brought into the United States when they were very young. It had been proposed and denied for years in Congress, and last year suffered another setback. Recently, Republicans introduced an alternative to the DREAM Act, called the...
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