Illegal Immigrant Students Worry After Dream Act Loss - NYTimes.com: "(It was) heady times for thousands of immigrant students who declared their illegal status during a nationwide campaign for a bill in Congress (the DREAM Act) that would have put them on a path to legal residence. In December that bill, known as the Dream Act, passed the House, then failed in the Senate.
That leaves students ... who might have benefited from the bill — an estimated 1.2 million nationwide — in a legal twilight."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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