Education Delayed

Hi, my name is Jesus Morales I’m an undocumented young man. I have been living here in the United States since the tender age of 4. My family migrated from Durango, México 16 years ago to look for a more secure and promising life than what we had in Mexico. I’ve had to deal with [...]

“The Fight To Fight!”

Why do I fight to be free? Why do I fight to survive? There is an infinite number of questions that come to me day after day. Opening my eyes the other day I said to myself, “Holy s***, I’m in Maine!” Three years ago I wouldn’t have believed it. Conforming to a status that [...]

Fearing the future, hoping for the best

As a child my parents never helped me with my homework, not because they didn’t want to but because neither of them finished school. I would notice my hand hurting from writing so much . My pencil was so small I could hardly get a good grip on it. I had used that same pencil for most [...]

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Free The Chicago 8: Dream Act Now!

Today, July 2y0th 2010, hundreds of students from around the nation gathered in our country’s capitol to lobby for the passage of the DREAM Act, including members of the Immigrant Youth Justice League. On this day, 20 DREAM students engaged in a civil action to show the Senate that it is time for the DREAM Act to become a reality. These brave students made history and held a sit-in in the offices of Senators Menendez, Schumer, Feinstein, Reid and McCain to ask them to become a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act as standalone. The time is now.

As of 7 pm on July 20th, all DREAM students engaged in the action have been arrested, eight of which are members of the Immigrant Youth Justice League. (Meet the DREAMers http://bit.ly/aa90oS)

We need your help to support the cause, and pass the DREAM Act. Call all five of these Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the DREAM Act as standalone and to stop using immigrant youth as pawns. We want the DREAM Act to be the piece of legislation that would relieve not only our friends, but also the estimated 2.1. million undocumented youth that would qualify. ACT NOW!

Numbers:

Senator Reid 202-224-3542
Senator McCain 202-224-2235
Janet Napolitano (Director of Homeland Security) 202-282 8000

Solidarity with Arizona, End Deportations

Join IYJL and other community organizations  on Thursday, July 29 at 4 pm, in front of the Cook County Jail (corner of 26th & California Ave.)
End the Deportations! Moratorium Now!

No to SB 1070! No to the Polimigra!

Every day, 1,100 families are torn apart.
Every day, 1,100 men, women, and children are deported.
Every day, 1,100 human beings are criminalized
Every day, 1,100 Dreams are truncated
Every day, We must take action for this to stop, we must raise our voices, we must come out to the streets and demand Moratorium on all Deportations! En Español (more…)

“Let America Be The Dream, Dreamers Dreamed” Donate!

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed–
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above. (more…)

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