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Dreamer Builds a Successful Life in New York After Mother’s Deportation
Angel Reyes Rivas, the co-founder of a thriving technology company, has sacrificed more than most to become an educated, middle-class professional. When he was in high school, his mother was pulled over for driving without a license. As an undocumented immigrant from Peru, she was handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sent to jail, […]
Read MoreWashington Post: Distinguished persons of the week
President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week chose to use the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as fodder in their battle for the hearts of angry white nationalists. Their phony legal deadline — no lawsuit had been filed — concocted by Republican governors (with or without collaboration with […]
Read MoreStates and NGOs Sue Trump Administration Over DACA Termination
With the Trump administration announcing it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on Tuesday, a number of states, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and DACA recipients immediately went to federal court in attempt to stop its termination. In the two days since the administration called an end to DACA, three lawsuits have been […]
Read MoreBusiness Insider: America needs immigrant entrepreneurs
You may not know his name but Andy Bechtolsheim is one of the giants of American technology. Born in post-World War II Germany, he’s always been a natural inventor and entrepreneur. “I spent a lot of time building things,” he’s said of his rural boyhood. Unlike most kids, he was taking apart and reassembling radios at the […]
Read MoreUtah Immigration Reform Coalition Responds to Trump Administration’s Decision to End the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, Calls on Congress to Pass Bipartisan DREAM Act to Keep State Economy Strong
Salt Lake City, UT — Today, the Utah Immigration Reform Coalition responded to President Trump’s announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, opposing the decision to remove the thousands of individuals that help make Utah’s economy stronger. The coalition called for Congressional solutions that instead harness the power of the foreign-born […]
Read MoreNew York Times: If You Want to MAGA, Save DACA
What is it, really, that makes a country great? Surely not size. Russia has 56 times the territory and more than twice the population of Italy. Yet Italy’s economy, troubled as it is, is 44 percent larger than Russia’s. Nor is it sheer scale. China’s G.D.P. may eventually outstrip America’s. But per capita Chinese G.D.P. […]
Read MoreSpotlight on the DACA-Eligible Population
This post was updated on May 14, 2020 to include relevant data in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which grants law-abiding undocumented youth a renewable two-year reprieve from deportation and the ability to work in the United States […]
Read MoreUSCIS Adds Extra Hurdles for Legally Residing Immigrants
The Trump administration continued its attack on legal immigration this month, announcing that it will start requiring additional in-person interviews for tens of thousands of individuals who have already undergone extensive screening and have been successfully living and working in the United States for years. These unnecessary interviews are likely to add to already significant […]
Read MoreImmigrant Soldiers ‘Motivated by American ideals,’ Says U.S. Vet
Serving in a U.S. Army intelligence unit in 1990s South Korea, Stephanie Izaguirre learned what it meant to be an outsider. “It is a beautiful culture, but I had to give up everything I knew to experience this whole other part of life,” she says. “That opened my eyes about what it meant to be […]
Read MoreDreamer Wants to Give Back to U.S. — To Do So Needs DACA
Ana Ramirez grew up in north-central Washington, studying hard, earning good grades, and believing she had the same opportunities as her peers. It wasn’t until she was a freshman in high school that she learned the truth. After being accepted into a European summer study program, she ran home to tell her parents the good […]
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