At first glance, 22-year-old Keyla Santizo seems wise beyond her years —carrying herself as a strong, intelligent young woman with a bright future.
But Santizo can't drive to school and or apply for any academic scholarships.
It's not that she can't afford a car or doesn't have the grades to apply for a scholarship.
(CNN) – President Barack Obama's reelection team issued its harshest critique yet of the Republican presidential field in a memo Monday, hitting frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry over issues including Social Security and immigration.
Ben LaBolt, press secretary for Obama 2012, said the GOP candidates have embraced policies the American people oppose in an effort to "win the hearts and minds of the Tea Party."
Tucson finds itself at the center of a national debate over the Dream Act this week, as local resident Sandra Lopez awaits her imminent deportation in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Eloy, Ariz.. Dream activists throughout the nation are pointing to Lopez’ case as paradigmatic of a failing U.S. deportation policy, and they are urging ICE officials to release her from custody.
CALIFORNIA: California Governor Jerry Brown has until Oct 9 to sign legislation which would give the state's 41,000 undocumented students access to Cal Grants, UC grants and other state-funded scholarships for college education.
The bill - known as AB131 - is the second half of the California Dream Act, engineered by California state Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, a Democrat from Los Angeles. Brown July 25 signed into law AB130, the first half of the California Dream Act, which allows undocumented students to apply and receive privately-funded scholarships (I-W, Aug. 12). AB131 had been gridlocked in the Senate Appropriations committee, but passed with amendments, before moving on to the full Senate for a vote Sept 1. The bill then went back to the State Assembly for approval of the amendments and was handed to the governor for approval Sept 9.
There are many conflicts and con- troversial topics in today’s’ world. These conflicts involve the economy; another is financial aid. but for U.S. citizens’ any- more; it’s also for undocumented students or, illegal aliens.
States such as Texas, California, New York, Utah, and New Mexico(community colleges) have passed state laws providing in-state tuition for those who have attend- ed high school for at least three years.
The letter to the editor in the T-R by Darrell Meyer "Put you money where your mouth Is" caught my eye. He certainly has a point. It is very easy to be generous with other people's money. Apparently the businesses and individuals listed in the advertisement on 9-25-11 in favor of the DREAM Act feel that illegal alien students should be able to attend college with help from the taxpayer citizens of Iowa.
Texas Governor Rick Perry just threw a ten gallon hat into the ring for the 2012 presidential rodeo, announcing his candidacy for the White House:
“I declare to you today as a candidate for President of the United States,” Perry told a friendly crowd in South Carolina, host to the nation’s third presidential primary.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., backed by religious leaders, takes the podium at a press conference held on Capitol Hill July 12 to announce plans for a DREAM Act Sabbath. It will take place Sept. 23-25, when churches, synagogues and mosques will provide materials and personal stories to promote the legislation. The DREAM Act would allow students brought to the United States as children the chance to legalize their immigration status by attending college or serving in the U.S. military. At right is Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. (CNS photo/Rafael Crisostomo, Catholic Standard)
Photo: Wash. Dream Act Collition
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - Ad Lib by Catherine Poe
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Thursday denounced an immigration bill authored by Rep. Lamar Smith as “petty partisan politics” and accused Smith of being a hypocrite for introducing the measure to spur deportations.
Smith, R-San Antonio, filed the “Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation” Act, or HALT, after the administration announced it would prioritize deportations to remove violent criminals and terrorists.
Illegal immigrants would be allowed to get privately financed student aid administered by state universities and colleges under legislation approved Thursday by the state Senate and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.
Brown is expected to approve the measure, which is part of the California Dream Act, having declared during last year’s election campaign that he would have signed a similar bill.
The latest campaign finance filings show that freshman Del. Neil C. Parrott spent just under $14,000 on his successful drive to put the Maryland Dream Act on the 2012 ballot.
Parrott, a Washington County Republican, kicked off a signature gathering effort in mid-April with $4,800 of his own money. As cash trickled in, he paid himself back. The MDPetitions.com campaign reported a balance of $11,095, funds Parrott can use to fight any legal challenge.
When my daily Google Alert snagged an article attributed to Fox that used the word “undocumented” rather than the i-word I was shocked. But a short click later and I found that this article appeared on Fox News Latino, while the same story was covered on Fox News, which used the i-word throughout.
More students may soon gave access to funds to help pay for college.
State senators are scheduled to vote today on a measure that if passed would allow some undocumented students to apply for private scholarships and grants to help them pay tuition at California public colleges and universities.
Could Rubio Help Deliver Latino Voters to the GOP in 2012?
When Florida Republican Marco Rubio accepted his U.S. Senate victory in November, he spoke about the immigrant experience of his Cuban-exiled parents and the dreams they had for their children in America. But he also spoke about the wrong direction he believed the country was headed and the need to take on pressing economic issues in Washington.
fight through Congress at the end of last year, Sen. Dick Durbin is preparing to reintroduce the bill this session, his office confirmed last week. The legislation seeks to create a path to citizenship for undocumented youth who grew up in the United States; it surged ahead on the congressional agenda last session as key Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, courted Latino voters in a hard-fought electoral cycle.
With Student Government Association elections now underway, this university certainly has a lot to look forward to in the upcoming week. McKeldin Mall sidewalks will be covered with ridiculous slogans chalked every four inches. Candidates, who will soon be smelly from not laundering their party T-shirts, will be distributing pens and other knickknacks to passing students. And for those of you lucky enough to live on the campus, "dorm storming" — a campaigning tactic where SGA candidates sneak into dorms in order to talk to students — will become an almost daily annoyance.
On Saturday, at an event in providence, Rhode Island, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) gave a speech to a crowd of hundreds of legal immigrants and illegal aliens in which he criticized the federal government over deportations.
The event was one in a series which Gutierrez has planned across the country to gather stories on how deportation are affecting illegal aliens, in an attempt to convince President Obama to limit removals to only those illegal aliens convicted of serious crimes.
Ill. congressman to meet with immigrants in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — An Illinois congressman is coming to Boston during a multi-city tour to raise awareness of the effects of deportations on immigrants and their families.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez is scheduled to meet with immigrant advocates Sunday at La Casa de la Cultura in Boston's East Boston neighborhood.
I had extraordinarily low expectations for the Las Vegas mayor’s race. But it has managed not to meet them.
I have writtenbeforethat the office itself is fundamentally inconsequential, so it somehow seems fitting that an inconsequential 2 percent of Southern Nevada’s population will decide who “leads” the region’s largest city in the post-Oscar Goodman era.
