Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students
Friday, March 24, 2006
- Organization: Center for Community Change
- Link: http://www.communitychange.org
In an opinion piece from the head of the Center for Community Change, explains how children of undocumented immigrants are in the crosshairs of anti-immigrant advocates' attacks on new Americans. Across the country, efforts are under way to strip these students of the ability to go to college. If they succeed, this will be a tragedy for all Americans, not only for youth relegated to a permanent underclass. Fortunately for all of us, immigrant youth and their allies will not take this lying down. Young immigrants actively campaigned to re-introduce the DREAM Act in the Senate last November that would remove barriers to obtaining higher education for undocumented children who graduate from American high schools.
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