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DeCentering Citizenship
I always find it amusing that our great President chooses to enforce harsh immigration laws, deporting record numbers of people from the United States to appease the same people that question his own citizenship. Then again, Barack Obama is head Read More …
Crowdsourcing Immigrant Dreams
Those who are afraid to fail never really come close to succeeding. I’ve had old school activists look down at our use of social media. That’s fine. I am not in the business of changing how people organize (unless I Read More …
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change of non-immigrant status from F-2 to F-1 and a January 2003 denial of the F-1 petition that we had already withdrawn.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 …
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 …