Keep the DREAM Alive Campaign

Our principal federal campaign to promote the need for immigrant youth to obtain access to legal status and higher education began in December 2008. We also advocate for accessibility of state and federal financial aid, and dignity and opportunity for immigrant youth. To this end, UWD provides the planning, strategy sessions, logistical, financial and facilitation resources for convening and trainings, as well as online organizing capacity.

END Our Pain Campaign

The END, Education Not Deportation, Our Pain campaign is a national campaign to  prevent the deportations of young people, thereby allowing immigrant youth to  continue their lives in the United States, pursue higher education and achieve their  dreams.

Currently, an individual END campaign is initiated when a student is facing imminent deportation. END has a network of local immigrant youth organizations, which are instrumental in organizing the campaign for the student facing deportation or in detention and partners including Immigrant Legal Resource Center, NILC, and SEIU. The overarching END campaign builds on the momentum created by individual campaigns to push for systemic change, including a moratorium on deportations of immigrant youth who would benefit from a change in the current laws. The activities of the END campaign entail  education of policymakers, legal advocacy, public campaigns, and targeting media.