According to UWDA, these “two candidates rise far above the rest to bring real change for immigrants and people of color.” 

#LetMyPeopleStay

As Trump Administration appeals court ruling on DACA, youth say: “Republicans must stop blocking the Dream Act and Congress must pass the bill by January 19 because our lives are at stake!”

“After President Trump ended DACA, the program that provided temporary protection for Dreamers, I knew I had to take a stand.”

“Schumer, I’m tired of you lying to my community!”

Gutiérrez: “By Christmas, the number of DACA recipients who will have lost protection will reach 13,492.”

“If protections for Dreamers are not passed this year, those funds WILL be used to deport Dreamers who will lose protection from deportation starting on March 5th.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) presented a new bipartisan DREAM Act bill Thursday in Washington, D.C.

“I write to you today to ask that your administration urge Republican members of Congress to immediately co-sponsor and pass the DREAM Act.”

The battle to secure state-level Dream Acts continue. While Texas and Kansas mobilize to ensure that in-state tuition stays in place for undocumented students, the state of New York has taken an unexpected turn. Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose re-election campaign relied on the promise of passing the NY Dream Act, has turned his back on […]

Remember early in November when New Jersey governor Chris Christie was being praised for being a Republican that was able to garner the Latino vote in an election? The Daily Beast, for example, reminded readers that right before Christie’s re-election sweep, he had changed his position on New Jersey’s version of a DREAM Act, making […]

This week in front of the New York City office of Governor Andrew Cuomo, two members of the New York State Youth Leadership Council were arrested during a peaceful demonstration urging the governor to pass the state’s version of the DREAM Act. After the arrests, NYSYLC published the words of the two individuals arrested, Verónica […]

Yesterday, our founder wrote an opinion piece about Pedro Rios, a Republican candidate for California's State Assembly who is facing a controversy in his district when it was revealed in the local Bakersfield press that was smuggled into the United States from Mexico as an undocumented youth. Rios, a beneficiary of President Reagan's 1986 amnesty […]

Is the shift in the immigration debate starting to happen between Democrats and Republicans? Both Univision News and Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día are reporting that a meeting between Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic leaders received praise by Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (IL), a vocal critic of recent Republican immigration policies as well as the […]

Immigration hypocrisy is becoming the standard for US politicians. Take the case of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R), who is facing a tough re-election bid this year. Brown, who became the Bay State's senator in a special election after the death of Ted Kennedy, went on record in late 2010 and opposed The DREAM Act, […]

The current quartet of mainstream GOP presidential candidates are all against the current version of the DREAM Act, now that Ron Paul has spoken out the proposed bill, which is supported by 91% of US Latino voters, according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. Paul's decision to not support the DREAM […]

This is what Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez posted today on his Facebook page:   GOP's Military-Only Version of the DREAM Act: A Political Ploy The latest Republican immigration political ploy is to force young people who are long-term residents of the U.S. — many of whom have U.S. citizen brothers or sisters — to serve […]

Florida Republican Congressman David Rivera has introduced the Adjusted Residency for Military Service (ARMS) Act, which in essence is a military-only version of the DREAM Act.     Here is the FACT SHEET that Congressman Rivera has made public:   The Adjusted Residency for Military Service (ARMS) Act will provide the opportunity to adjust the […]

Here is the full video of what Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio had to say about immigration and the GOP at Friday's Hispanic Leadership Network conference in Miami. This first video shows NO SOMOS RUBIOS members interrupting Senator Rubio's speech. The other two clips show his entire speech.    

In a roundtable discussion today with Latino journalists from Yahoo, MSN, and AOL, President Barack Obama was asked about his take on why The Dream Act has not passed. Here is what he said: President Obama said that his Administration has done everything he could (for example, shifting the immigration emphasis on those in the […]

So maybe the arroz con gandules and medianoche sandwich at the Kasalta in Santurce, Puerto Rico transformed President Barack Obama into a Man of Latino Action. YES, THAT IS WHAT HE DID. But guess what, the mainstream media has done nothing with this. Here is the ACTUAL DOCUMENT. As The Examiner reports: On Friday, the […]