Photo Courtesy of: Photo Credit: Steve Pavey/The NIYA IYJL Statement On Deferred Action Application: What’s Next? The Immigrant Youth Justice League commends the Department of Homeland Security for doing its job on releasing the applications on time. We hope that the implementation of deferred action will not fall on deaf ears and that each case [...]
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Yanelli was deported today and many people are asking, “Now what?” For those of us who care, this was a tragic and sad situation. Unfortunately, there are many more undocumented youth who are battling with depression and other mental health issues. Many of us are currently in deportation proceedings or have already been deported like [...]
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Speakin’ For A Dream Performed by Christopher ‘Rhixcs’ Nguyen & Allen ‘Tusic’ Tu All these years I’ve been asleep, ignorant to all the cries of the folks who’re strugglin’, all their hurt and their sighs The ones who go to sleep at night and spend it in a dream But have to face reality, it [...]
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This is the testimony/ call for a walk out by Alaa Mukahhal, given at the public hearing on Secure Communities in Chicago, August 17th, 2011. After this call, over 300 people walked out of the meeting to join a civil disobedience by undocumented students outside. My name is Alaa and I’m undocumented. Today, I am [...]
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Today DHS will have a public hearing on secure communities in Chicago, at 6pm, at 622 West Randolph. More info here. [In]Secure Communities (SComm) is a federal deportation program started in October 2008 by the Obama Administration. Its purpose is to have local law enforcement share with Immigration Customs and Enforcement anyone they take in [...]
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This Friday October 1st, eight undocumented youth and students will be traveling to Washington D.C. to appear before court as a consequence of the arrests that took place during a civil disobedience action to urge legislators to move the DREAM Act forward. We were part of the 21 undocumented students who took over the capitol [...]
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UPDATE: As of Thursday August 5th, we found out that Marlen was granted deferred action for one year. Thank you for all your signatures and faxes. This is a great victory that we must celebrate, but remember we continue fighting for the DREAM Act. We can’t continue to fight case by case, but we will [...]
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"La organización Chicago Community and Workers Rights esta invitando a una reunión informativa en nuestra organización a cerca de “la reforma..
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New York coming out!
Houston - " Jovenes indocumentados en Texas salen de las sombras y declaran su estatus migratorio publicamente! Un abrazote a Alicia Torres quien..
