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President Obama — Use Your Pen!
I remember the moment a few years ago when my now-husband Juan Rodriguez brought me a huge map of Florida. We had been organizing undocumented youth in Miami for the few months before that through Students Working for Equal Rights (SWER), and had gotten a good deal of traction. But Juan, ever the dreamer, was still not satisfied with our progress. He said, “SWER is only in Miami — we need to expand to every corner of the state!” We sat puzzled by this enormous task. How could we — low-income, undocumented youth without...
read moreA Band-Aid On a Deep Wound
By Tomas Pendola Many of us have heard of the “amazing” news that Obama announced on June 15,2012. He proudly came up on TV in front of the whole United States and announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be having a change of policy which would not only stop the deportation of dreamers who met specific requirements but would also allow them to apply for a work permit once they had attained Deferred Action (DA). For those who don’t know; DA is an use of prosecutorial discretion to not deport a person who could...
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