After Senate Committee Passage of Bipartisan Immigration Bill, DREAMers Pledge To Keep Fighting!
WASHINGTON, D.C.—United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country, is encouraged by the continued momentum on immigration reform after the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S.744, the bipartisan immigration bill, on Tuesday evening. Cristina Jimenez, Managing Director of United We Dream said: “With the bipartisan passage of the Senate immigration bill, our nation [...]
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Nation’s Leading LGBT Advocacy Organizations Stand Firm for Immigration Reform
Following is a statement in response to evangelicals’ threat to withdraw support for comprehensive immigration reform legislation if it includes a provision that recognizes same-sex bi-national couples. The statement can be attributed to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLAAD, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, United We Dream and Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project. “Our [...]
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DREAMers Challenge Outdated, Piecemeal Approach to Immigration, Keep Pushing for Direct Path to Citizenship for All 11 Million
Yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) took to the Senate floor to demonize immigrants, including DREAMers, and condemn the immigration reform bill a bipartisan group of Senators introduced last week. Senator Sessions, a longtime opponent of any common-sense legislation around our country’s immigration policy, pals around with anti-immigrant extremists like Kris Kobach, who just last week [...]
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DREAMers Denounce Political Attacks on Successful Deferred Action Program by Anti-Immigrant Extremists
Today, a district court judge released an interim ruling in the case Crane v. Napolitano, the head of the National ICE Union’s lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In response, Lorella Praeli, Director of Advocacy and Policy for United We Dream, said: “The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program remains [...]
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United We Dream Vows to Defend DREAM Act Provisions, Keep Fighting for our Families
Washington, D.C.—As both the Senate Gang of 8 and anti-immigrant obstructionist Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and David Vitter (R-LA) hold press conferences this afternoon discussing the newly-introduced bipartisan Senate immigration bill, immigrant youth are speaking out to push for swift passage of legislation that provides a real roadmap to citizenship for all 11 million, keeps [...]
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With Senate Immigration Bill, Our Nation is on the Brink of History
Washington, D.C. – As the Senate Gang of 8 prepares to unveil their landmark immigration reform proposal, United We Dream—the largest network of immigrant youth in the country—is proud of the power DREAMers have built, which got us to this historic moment. DREAMers are ramping up the fight to protect the DREAM provisions in the proposal, [...]
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Dreamer Moms Join Rally for Immigration Reform Alongside DREAMers
Washington, D.C.— Yesterday, hundreds of DREAMers and their parents are in Washington, D.C. for the “All In for Citizenship” rally, joining tens of thousands of other advocates and immigrants pushing for a real roadmap to citizenship for all 11 million Americans without papers. DREAMers, who transformed the immigration debate by coming out as “undocumented and [...]
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Does It Take a Manufactured Crisis to Reunite Families and Shed Light on Reckless Enforcement?
Does It Take a Manufactured Crisis to Reunite Families and Shed Light on Reckless Enforcement and Never-Ending Cycle of Deportation? United We Dream Reacts to ICE Release of Detainees in Advance of “Sequestration” Washington, D.C. – In anticipation of the looming federal budget cuts through so-called sequestration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has directed [...]
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United We Dream Reacts to Immigration Drama in Washington, D.C.
United We Dream Reacts to Immigration Drama in Washington, D.C.: Full Steam Ahead on our Push for a Clear Path to Citizenship Washington, D.C. – In response to the leak this weekend of the White House’s draft immigration bill, and the ensuing back-and-forth between politicians about who leaked what or spoke to whom, the largest [...]
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DREAMers On the Frontlines of Immigration Debate Make History at State of the Union and Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
Having earned a place at the forefront of the debate over immigration policy, young immigrants are making history and speaking out on behalf of their families and communities to set the terms of the debate. Tonight, Julieta Garibay, a United We Dream leader, was in attendance at the State of the Union, as the guest [...]
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