Estudiantes “sin papeles” luchan por su futuro - El Diario y La Prensa by Armando Varela
LOS ÁNGELES (EFE).- Los estudiantes indocumentados de California siguen luchando para que los legisladores tomen conciencia de su situación y aprueben leyes que les permitan lograr su sueño de tener una carrera universitaria.
Fabiola Santiago cursa estudios de sociología en la Universidad [...]
Hispanic Heritage Week: Agency Sees Decrease In Opportunities For Day Laborers - NY1
By: Jeanine Ramirez
There are some questions Luz Barinas can answer in English, but the Colombian immigrant says her language skills are very limited. As a result, she signed up for a free English class being offered in Corona.
“I need to speak English with [...]
300 student busts were illegal, NYCLU tells Police Commissioner Ray Kelly - Daily News by Carrie Melago
Police are not allowed to arrest kids under 16 for violations, such as loitering, without a warrant - only for actual crimes.
More than 300 students were illegally arrested in schools from 2005 to 2007, the NYCLU charged Wednesday in a letter [...]
300 suspected illegal immigrants caught in SC raid - Associated Press by Mitch Weiss and Jeffrey Collins
Federal agents swept through a chicken processing plant Tuesday, detaining more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, sending panicked workers running and screaming through the hallways. Worried relatives collected outside, fearful their loved ones would be deported.
Police and agents during a shift [...]
Legal Immigration? Anybody? - NY Times Editorial
One of the false pieties uttered by anti-immigration politicians is that they love immigrants. If that were true, Congress would not be having so much trouble passing a simple law to smooth out a serious kink in the legal immigration pipeline.
Every year Congress authorizes a certain number of permanent-resident visas, [...]
Could you pass the new citizenship test? - By Jason Hanna- CNN
CLARKSTON, Georgia (CNN) — James Yarsiah listened to his college classmates discuss whether the civics component of the new U.S. naturalization test — which prospective citizens can start taking Wednesday — is more challenging than its predecessor.
Are new conceptual questions such as, “What does the [...]
