As a founder of DreamActivist, Prerna helped to create a robust network of highly-organized and diverse undocumented youth with digital engagement capacity. Since then, her model of organizing has been used by immigration organizations across the country to end deportations. She is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School, with a Distinguished Accomplishment award in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She currently works on federal court litigation, while writing a book and advising on movement strategy and tactics.
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” -Arundhati Roy Ju Hong’s “yelling” to issue an executive order to stop deportations echoed across the country, and has sparked a series of actions mostly calling on the President to use his executive authority to stop deportations. Over […]
It’s my birthday soon. And the holidays, for many who celebrate. Many people are wondering what to get for the undocumented relative or friend they have in their lives. And if you are looking to give money to immigrants and for immigrant justice, look no further. Ask Angy bracelets – Angy Rivera, who runs the […]
I just submitted another paper for publication, a draft version of which is available on SSRN. It is a literature review of a book by Deirdre Moloney, National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882. Abstract: Despite immigrant‐friendly rhetoric, President Obama has deported more immigrants than any other President in history, with a whooping record of […]
I am a little late on this one, courtesy the holidays and a visit from my awesome in-laws. They treated us to some great dinners and then bought a nice gym membership for both of us. I get the message since I am not as dense as the immigration system in the U.S. If you […]
Ju Hong was scared, even unsure, as to the consequences to him if he interrupted President Barack Obama during his stump speech on immigration reform in San Francisco earlier this week. After all, Hong was placed there by the White House, perhaps not so cleverly, to make sure he was merely another prop to give […]
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly […]
I was honored to be on Episode 2 of The Good Fight with Ben Wickler, a progressive show about people changing the world. Friend of this blog, Professor Allegra McLeod at Georgetown Law, had her research on immigrant and criminal convictions covered extensively in an article by The Atlantic on Why Are Immigrants Being Deported for […]
President Obama continues to deport people, even as pro-reform advocates with significant salaries continue to fast on Capitol Hill for comprehensive immigration reform. The undocumented have been starved for many years so we’ll continue to eat what we can. In some good news, the federal government is stopping the deportations of the spouses, children and parents […]
As reform advocates continue to fast and pray for comprehensive immigration reform by pitching tents on Capitol Hill, perhaps the most under-reported immigration news of this year is how the Obama Administration is denying green-cards to thousands of young immigrants by not giving proper interpretation to the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA). The CSPA was supposed […]
November 13, 1999 I trudged along at Nadi International Airport, with my pink diary full of angsty teenage poetry, various packets of chewing gum, a collection of teddy bears, a worn-down pillow, and a blue Nike bag with more precious items. My father took one look at me and collectively called all my belongings “junk.” […]
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