by Gabrielle Levy | Jun 29, 2011 | Education, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON–Ten years after it was first introduced in Congress, the DREAM Act–the federal bill promoting a path to citizenship for undocumented youth through education or military service—received its first Senate hearing this week. Education Secretary...
by Gillian Brockell | Jun 29, 2011 | Immigration
WASHINGTON–When Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, proposed the Legal Workforce Act earlier this month, the bill was co-sponsored by 11 House Republicans – a number that now has grown to 26 — and hailed by some as a solution to illegal workers. But a vocal...
by Kristin Kim & Abby Sun | Jun 29, 2011 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee this week for the first time debated the DREAM Act that would give undocumented immigrants a path to legal status through college or the military. Later this week, Maryland is poised to be the 11th state in the country with...
by Matt Mansfield | Jun 28, 2011 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — Supporters of the DREAM Act say now is the time to pass legislation providing children of illegal immigrants American citizenship. But it’s not likely the bill will get any traction in the Republican-controlled House. For the first time in its decade-long...
by Matt Mansfield | Jun 8, 2011 | Business & Tech, Immigration
WASHINGTON – When Cheryl Arredondo realized her husband, Salvador, would be deported to Mexico and barred from entering the U.S. for 10 years she left her home, business and 19 year-old daughter behind in Waukegan, Ill., and drove 1,600 miles to Monterrey,...
by Matt Mansfield | Jun 7, 2011 | Immigration
Suzanne Scholte is a human rights activist and chairman and founding member of the North Korea Freedom Coalition, an organization of over 65 nongovernmental organizations and individuals from around the world promoting the freedom, human rights and dignity of the...
