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Update: #DREAM9 Detained at Eloy Detention Center. Make The Call To #BringThemHome
In a radical, transnational action at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday, 8 “dreamers” walked up to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and asked to be admitted to the United States. The initial DREAM 8 grew to DREAM 9, when Rosie Rojas, Read More …
Why I Support The Bring Them Home Campaign
Several immigrant youth, who have been leaders in the undocumented youth movement in the United States, have crossed the border into Mexico, and plan to turn themselves in alongside other undocumented youth who left or were deported from the United Read More …
“You May Think I Am Crazy, But I Think It Is Crazier That I Haven’t Seen My Family for 15 Years”
“In 2008 I was knocking on doors to get President #Obama elected, and now, in 2013, I will be knocking on America’s door, asking President Obama to bring my community home.” – Lizbeth Mateo. Breaking from The National Immigrant Youth Read More …
Married
Yesterday, we had a paparazzi wedding ceremony at the Lutheran Church of Reformation in Washington D.C. It was nonetheless, lovely to share our love with so many people, including all our badass friends from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, and the same-sex binational Read More …
Post-DOMA – How Can LGBT Persons Benefit Under Current Immigration Laws?
With the Defense of Marriage Act dead, marriage equality provides more than 1,100 federal benefits previously unavailable to same-sex spouses. I’m pretty sure that is an undercount given I can think of a hundred different immigration benefits alone. There are more than 24,000 Read More …