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Mayorkas v. Cuellar De Osorio: From the Frontlines of the Supreme Court

Posted onDecember 10, 201361 Comments

A major storm was supposed to take over the District of Columbia today. While the federal and District government closed down in anticipation of bad weather, I trudged along to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in Mayorkas Read More …

CategoriesImmigrationTagsaging out, Chevron, Chevron deference, Child Status Protection Act, CSPA, DACA, DREAMers, Mark Fleming, SCOTUS

Whither Immigration Reform?

Posted onSeptember 23, 2013Leave a comment

Lets get this out of the way: Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR), with a pathway to citizenship, is dead for 2013. Many of our friends working hard on Capitol Hill insist that immigration reform talks are moving forward despite the death Read More …

CategoriesImmigrationTagsBarack Obama, CIR, DACA, deferred action, DREAMers, Marco Rubio, NIYA

Why Dreamers Need Lawyers

Posted onAugust 8, 20122 Comments

Full disclosure, I’m a Dreamer. I’m also a full-time third-year law student. I work at an immigration law firm in downtown Washington D.C. and I love my job. Like many immigrants in the United States, my family and I were Read More …

CategoriesImmigrationTagsdeferred action, DREAMers, lawyers

In These Waiting Rooms of History – The DREAM of U

Posted onOctober 24, 2008Leave a comment

i wait for you in this caged room we’ve never met and yet [you feel familiar i feel like i’ve known you before] shadows mill past me moving slowly, drudging and digging futures ploughed within these timeless walls you see Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, Immigration, Poetry, RacismTagsDREAM Act, DREAMers, poetry

More DREAM Act students face deportation

Posted onApril 24, 2008Leave a comment

For every Juan Gomez, Tope Awe and Maria Gonzalez, we have countless other nameless and faceless DREAM Act students facing deportation to a foreign land and life. Their stories, our stories, deserve to be documented. Mario Munoz (28), came to Read More …

CategoriesImmigrationTagsdeportation, DREAM Act, DREAMers, undocumented students

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