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Dream 9 Members Freed to Seek Asylum
By Cindy Carcamo, L.A. Times August 8, 2013
Tuscon – Lizbeth Mateo won’t be late for her first day of law school after all – despite weeks in a federal detention center after protesting U.S. immigration policy. She and other members of the “Dream 9” were freed Wednesday while they pursue U.S. asylum.
Born in Mexico, Mateo, 29, has spent most of her life in Los Angeles. On Monday, she is to begin studies at Santa Clara University School of Law. Now she’s even more determined to succeed.
“I am absolutely ready to go to law school,” Mateo said.
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Time for Obama to Give ‘Help’, Not ‘Hope’ on Immigration Reform Promise
By professors Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Gonzalo Santos & Primitivo Rodriguez
President Obama has a golden opportunity to deliver on his promise of “hope” to Latinos on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR), and to “help” the nation’s economy and himself politically, by exercising his executive authority and granting deferred action to all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US.
Immigration ‘Plan B’ Focuses on White House
By Fawn Johnson, The National Journal, August 8, 2013 | 6:00 a.m.
Immigration-reform activists aren’t supposed to talk publicly about a Plan B. They can’t, or won’t, answer questions from the media about what they will do if no bill passes this year to legalize the undocumented population. But as August wears on and there is no clear sense of what the House will do on immigration, some are starting to speak out.
President Obama’s No-Congress Strategy
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, 7/30/13
President Barack Obama is planning to bypass congressional Republicans with a surge of executive actions and orders on issues like voting rights, health care, job creation, the economy, climate change and immigration.
Obama’s Trump Card on Immigration
By Nelson Peacock, L.A. Times Op-Ed, August 1, 2013
President Obama is tantalizingly close to passing comprehensive immigration reform, a legacy achievement. The Senate has provided a bipartisan bill, and the House is working on reform. The key issues are border security and a legal pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million who are here illegally.
The Dream 9 and the Dream Act’s Future
By The Times Editorial Board, August 7, 2013
Nine young men and women whose parents brought them to the United States as children without proper documentation were arrested last month after staging a bold protest. By traveling to Mexico and then trying to legally reenter the U.S., they hoped to highlight the plight of an estimated 1.7 million young immigrants who also came to the U.S. as children – and to press for passage of the Dream Act, which would offer them a conditional pathway to citizenship.
44,000 can’t wait for immigration reform in Congress
By Pablo Alvarado – 08/02/13
For the 44,000 people expected to be expelled from the country during Congress’ August recess, immigration reform won’t come soon enough and executive action is already overdue.
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