During my sophomore year in high school, I realized that I was "undocumented." I was used to supporting myself and my family, but suddenly there seemed so many things I could not do.
The Dreamers have reminded us what being an American and living the American Dream is all about. They did so by freeing themselves of the fear of being undocumented and then freeing us to consider anew what defines us as a people.
No longer can we let our brightest minds languish and the work of our K-12 educators go the waste. We have the power to write the next chapter in this country's history. Let's give every child that calls our nation home a path to college.
We cannot let undocumented students languish in a void without access to higher education. Nor can we offer them solutions that are only temporary.
The undocumented students I know are motivated and want to better themselves and their communities, so why should they struggle because of immigration status -- because they weren't lucky enough to be born in the U.S.?
After two years of failed attempts to pass a bill lowering the tuition rate for undocumented students at public colleges and universities throughout C...
Seconds after University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman banged the gavel to start today's Board of Regents meeting, the first student stood up...
WASHINGTON -- More than two-thirds of Americans believe immigration reform should be a priority during President Barack Obama's second term, according...
WASHINGTON --- Nayeli Manzano, 16, nervously watched Tuesday's election results roll in with her family. She is undocumented, as are her parents, and ...
Undocumented students may soon be able to pay in-state tuition in Maryland, with a new Washington Post poll showing 59 percent of likely voters there ...
Tom Tancredo, a former Republican Congressman from Colorado, has placed ads in Metro State University's newspaper seeking plaintiffs for a lawsuit seeking damages from the University's decision to offer undocumented students a reduced tuition rate.
This article first appeared in Model D. Here’s a familiar story: A smart, energetic teen who has boundless potential is hiding a big secret; some...
A new tuition rate goes into effect for undocumented students at the Metropolitan State College of Denver today. In June, the college's board of t...
Metropolitan State University of Denver says it has decided to move forward with its controversial vote granting undocumented students a new tuition r...
A new analysis casts some much-needed light on the question of exactly who might be eligible for the Obama Administration’s “deferred action” in...
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. The Obama administration's announcement on June 15th that it will stop ...
I lie whenever I stand in front of my seventh graders, and say: "Work hard and you can go to college anywhere you want and be anything you want to be." The truth is that their education, their career, their life will be influenced by immigration status.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of young undocumented immigrants from California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and elsewhere gathered on the steps of San Fra...
The truth is almost all in Washington, and Americans in general, realize these kids were going nowhere, that it would have been impossible to deport hundreds of thousands of them, and that such actions would have been inhuman and indecent.
Carlos Amador called the mood in downtown Los Angeles Friday morning "cautiously celebratory" as about 150 immigration reform and Dream Act activists ...
Last week, two undocumented immigrant students occupied President Barack Obama's Denver campaign office and began a hunger strike, effectively closing...
On Tuesday, two undocumented immigrant students occupied President Barack Obama's Denver campaign office and began a hunger strike. Now on day 3 of th...
Aylwing Olivas, a 21-year old student at Miami Dade College's InterAmerican campus in Miami, noticed that undocumented immigrant high schoolers were d...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has said he supports finding a solution for undocumented students. But you wouldn't know it from his Wednesday speech on edu...
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is willing to support a "Dream Act"-style bill from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) even if it's "watered-down" and doesn't giv...
