Big deal: Undocumented Americans grace the cover of Time magazine.
By TIFANI ROBERTS for AQUI Y AHORA
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting applications for deferred action and employment authorization from Dreamers this past week.
Activists got inside Jan Brewer’s office.
Arizona DREAMers flooded into Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s office after she ruled that undocumented youth granted deferred action could not apply for driver’s licenses.
“Inside Brewer’s office dropping off studies that show the majority of Arizona’s support the DREAMers,” Dulce Matuz, chair of the Arizona DREAM Act coalition, wrote on Facebook.
Today is the first day that eligible DREAMers around the country can fill out paperwork that would permit them to work and drive without fear of deportation. For DREAMers, this is life-changing. See what some of them have to say about what this day means to them:
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Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama have a history of sparring over immigration.
By EMILY DERUY
Young undocumented immigrants in Arizona who are accepted into President Obama’s deferred action program shouldn’t celebrate quite yet.
DREAM Activist: I Infiltrated Florida Facility to Expose How U.S. Still Detaining Youth Immigrants
(Source: democracynow.org)
Director of USCIS Alejandro Mayorkas provided more information about the deferred deportation action initiative on Tuesday.
By EMILY DERUY
The number of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children who could be eligible for a two-year relief from deportation may be as great as 1.76 million, according to a new estimate released Tuesday.
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