Dream Act

At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing this morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano carefully skirted repeated questions about her views of whether longtime undocumented immigrants living in the United States ought to get a chance at legalization.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is voicing his approval of federal legislation that would give undocumented high school students in the United States a legal avenue to attend college. The proposal — introduced in Congress two weeks ago as the DREAM Act — would permit undocumented individuals who entered the United States before turning 15 years old to obtain conditional permanent residency in order to attend college or a trade school or to serve in the military.

Opponents have branded the DREAM Act “amnesty,” and the latest incarnation of it was tabled in the Senate Wednesday. The bill would allow people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, and who want to attend college or join the military, to move toward legal residence. Despite this latest setback, DREAM Act proponents are [...]

You don’t have to be a working woman to knock your head on a proverbial glass ceiling.

According to the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, an estimated 65,000 undocumented high school students graduate each year with no hope of furthering their education.

But 2007 may finally be the year that changes, and immigrant rights [...]