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Put back into the pockets of families each year
My Sister Has Called America Home For 20 Years—Now You Want To Deport Her?
I was born in the United States, and, for most of my life, I thought my older sister was too. I learned about my sister Yatziri’s immigration status one afternoon when I found her crying in the kitchen. She was crying because she was not going to be able to go to college. I asked why. She…
NJ convierte en ley el DREAM Act que dará ayuda financiera con DACA
El gobernador de Nueva Jersey Phil Murphy promulgó este miércoles la ley DREAM Act, con lo cual el Estado Jardín dio un paso histórico hacia mejorar las perspectivas de cientos de jóvenes inmigrantes que ahora podrán acceder a ayuda financiera y así completar estudios universitarios. El mandatario que pertenece el Partido Demócrata, en apenas cinco meses en el cargo cumple una de sus promesas de campaña, abriendo a…
rump Administration Has Ended the Temporary Protected Status Program for Honduran Immigrants
On January 8, Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda threatened to separate me from my wife, who is from El Salvador, by ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Salvadorans living in the United States. At the start of May, they came after me, by ending TPS for Hondurans. Now, my children live with the fear of being separated from both their mother and father.