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Issue Briefs and Other Resources

Students' Stories

Testimony of DREAM students before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, May 18, 2007.  Read their testimony (click on the students' names):

• Marie Nazareth Gonzalez
  Westminster College, Class of 2009

• Martine Mwanj Kalaw
  Hamilton College, Class of 2003
  The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Class of 2004

• Tam Tran
  University of California, Los Angeles, Class of 2006

Or watch the hearing (on RealPlayer). 
Written testimony and video also available here.

"Just One Thing Missing," the story of a college student "with good grades, an excellent work ethic, but no possible way to get a legal job.  She's lived in the U.S. since she was little, but [is undocumented].  Most of her friends and teachers don't even know."  As reported by Douglas McGray, a fellow at the New America Foundation, on the radio program "This American Life" (program "329: Nice Work if You Can Get It," Apr. 6, 2007).  (Click on the above link; then click on "Full Episode"; then fast-forward to minute 46:34.)

Immigrants' Rights Update Articles (back to IRU index)

Emailed Updates