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DACA 10th Anniversary: How It Started & Where It is Now

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 15, 2022June 16, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 15, 2022June 16, 2022016478

Today is the 10th anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and it should feel monumental, but for many immigrants, the uncertainty today is greater than ever. DACA was created in 2012 when President Barack Obama took executive action...

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Activist Elsa Marie Collins Believes Immigration Reform Is About Humans, Not Politics

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 19, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 19, 202204551

First-generation Mexican American activist Elsa Marie Collins straddled the border most of her childhood. Born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana in the 80s and 90s, she remembers an entirely different experience than the one many children and families...

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Anti-Immigration Tweets from VP Kamala Harris’ New Communications Director Surface

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 11, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 11, 202204119

Political pundit and career Democratic communications aide, Jamal Simmons, was named Vice President Kamala Harris‘ communications director on Thursday, January 6, and not long after, he came under fire for a number of tweets that were perceived as being anti-immigration....

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Border Patrol Holding 15,500 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors

Virginia IsaadMarch 23, 2021

by Virginia IsaadMarch 23, 202107100

President Joe Biden assumed office with the promise of making sweeping changes to the border crisis and about two months into his presidency little has changed. While this is undoubtedly a lengthy process the fact that it seems the situation...

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House Passes Immigration Bill Creating a Pathway Toward Citizenship for Dreamers

Virginia IsaadMarch 19, 2021March 19, 2021

by Virginia IsaadMarch 19, 2021March 19, 202106198

Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. may have a chance at citizenship with a new bill the House passed on Thursday. The American Dream and Promise Act would allow Dreamers a chance toward citizenship as there is currently no process available...

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All of President Biden’s Immigration-Related Actions So Far

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 28, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 28, 202104587

President Joe Biden made a lot of promises about immigration reform during his campaign including a pledge to create a task force to reunite families that were separated at the border during former president Donald Trump’s administration “on his first...

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Biden Pauses Deportations, Preserves DACA and Halts Border Wall Construction

Virginia IsaadJanuary 21, 2021January 21, 2021

by Virginia IsaadJanuary 21, 2021January 21, 202104379

The newly inaugurated President Joe Biden got right to work mainly focusing on undoing the work of former President Donald Trump. Biden signed several executive orders centered on immigration in the U.S. One of the orders pauses deportations in the...

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Google Gave $250K to United We Dream to Help Pay for 500 DACA Applications

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202103836

Google announced on Wednesday that it will donate nearly $250,000 to the United We Dream non-profit organization which is the largest immigrant youth-led community group in the country, to help pay the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application fees...

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Kamala Harris Outlines Immigration Plan Providing Path Toward Citizenship for DACA Recipients

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 13, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJanuary 13, 202105013

On Tuesday, Vice President Elect Kamala Harris hinted at some major immigration policies and changes that can be expected after she and incoming President Joe Biden take office next week. In an interview with Univision’s Ilia Calderón, Harris spoke on...

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RAICES ‘Kids in Cages’ Installation is Reminder of Border Crisis

Virginia IsaadFebruary 3, 2020July 21, 2020

by Virginia IsaadFebruary 3, 2020July 21, 202002467

In light of the ongoing border crisis, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) put up more than a dozen chain-link cages in the city (with dolls that represent children) as caucus-goers in Iowa choose their...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Says ‘In the Heights’ Feels ‘Radical’ in 2019

Virginia IsaadAugust 22, 2019July 31, 2020

by Virginia IsaadAugust 22, 2019July 31, 202001788

When Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights came out in 2008 it was praised for its representation of the Latinx community in Washington Heights but now, according to Miranda himself, that same story feels “radical” in 2019. “I mean, there are...

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Joaquin Castro Wants to Remove ‘Illegal’ and ‘Alien’ From Federal Immigration Law

Virginia IsaadJuly 18, 2019August 3, 2020

by Virginia IsaadJuly 18, 2019August 3, 202002122

Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro and his twin brother, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Julián Castro, introduced legislation that would remove derogatory terms used to refer to immigrants from the federal government’s lexicon, Think Progress reports. The Correcting Alienating Names in...