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Year: 2011
E-Verify Plus DREAM Act: No Deal
Ever since Harry Reid hinted at the possibility of attaching the newly introduced DREAM Act to E-verify legislation, the blogosphere has buzzed with this possibility. And now Lamar Smith is using the DREAM Act as a carrot, hoping we will Read More …
A Minor With Immigrant Intent?
I just discovered another cause of my allegedly illegal status: a October 2002 letter requesting USCIS to abandon change of non-immigrant status from F-2 to F-1 and a January 2003 denial of the F-1 petition that we had already withdrawn. Read More …
13 Years On
Half my life ago, I first made out a girl. I didn’t know whether I was straight, gay or bisexual. At least, I did not identify with those labels. I just knew that I loved her and wanted to be Read More …
Home-Bound
I am going home today. Going home to a mother’s American dream Her daughter’s Kafkaesque nightmare A father’s woeful abuse and neglect His daughter’s fatherless upbringing A timeless tale of young love Now divided by borders and oceans There’s the Read More …
My Sheroes
Tam and Cinthia, Two very good friends and sisters in the struggle who passed away on this day last year: You’ll always be in my heart. Love, Prerna