Yesterday, just after we posted a message from the American Library Association’s Government Relations office calling for supporters of the DREAM Act to contact their Congressional representatives, the Senate failed to garner the requisite number of votes for the debate to even begin.
The 52-44 vote to advance the proposal, eight shy of the 60 required [...]
Melanie Anderson, REFORMA member and Assistant Director of Government Relations for the American Library Association, sent the following information:
On October 24, the Senate will take up consideration of The DREAM Act (S. 2205). The DREAM Act is a critical piece of legislation that allows the children of illegal immigrants who entered the United States [...]
These three little words bring up different feelings in me. Border makes me think about being imprisoned, marginalized, and disenfranchised. Frontera reminds me of the frontier untamed, not cultured, and uncouth. El otro lado, as we always called Nuevo Laredo, was connecting with family, and a continuation of my world. I use all three words [...]
After September 11, 2001, many elected officials responded to anti-immigrant sentiment by proposing legal provisions to ensure that illegal immigrants did not enter the nation and that those already in the United States would be forced to leave, or at least barred from public services. This political backdrop created the basis for a bill introduced [...]
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