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    The Butterfly Story Collective: Social Change Through the Power of Sharing Stories

    The Butterfly Story Collective: Social Change Through the Power of Sharing Stories

    Patrick O’Shea

    Published Oct 27, 2017 It gives Divine hope to know that her story has the power to create change. On an upcoming episode of a new podcast from the Butterfly Story Collective, she shares her personal experience of changing someone’s views on undocumented...

    The Fight Continues: What Muslim Ban 3.0 Means in the Courts and in the Streets

    The Fight Continues: What Muslim Ban 3.0 Means in the Courts and in the Streets

    Subha Varadarajan

    Published Oct 13, 2017 There’s a new ban that prevents Muslims from coming to the U.S. On September 24, 2017, the day that the 90-day ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) was set to expire, the Trump...

    The Clock is Ticking, Congress. It’s Time to Pass a Clean Dream Act Now.

    The Clock is Ticking, Congress. It’s Time to Pass a Clean Dream Act Now.

    Published Oct 5, 2017 The normal day-to-day existence that most of us tend to take for granted now has an expiration date for almost 800,000 young immigrants.

    Untangling the Immigration Enforcement Web: New NILC Report Looks at Cooperation Between Local Law Enforcement and Federal Agencies

    Untangling the Immigration Enforcement Web: New NILC Report Looks at Cooperation Between Local Law Enforcement and Federal Agencies

    Published Sep 22, 2017 Immigrants are caught in a complex and opaque web of databases, related systems, and information-sharing mechanisms that make it easier for immigration enforcement to disrupt their lives and prevent them from fully participating in economic and...

    They Risked Everything for a Shot at the American Dream. Now, We Must Stand Up and Defend Them.

    They Risked Everything for a Shot at the American Dream. Now, We Must Stand Up and Defend Them.

    Kamal Essaheb

    Published Sep 7, 2017 This week President Trump shut the door on nearly a million young people, and didn’t even have the courage to face their questions. This callous and immoral decision that requires all of us who choose to be on the right side of history to...

    Dreamers’ Stories Show What Would Be Lost if DACA Were to End

    Dreamers’ Stories Show What Would Be Lost if DACA Were to End

    Published Aug 25, 2017 Getting a driver’s license, finding a job, going to college—these are milestones in life that most of us take for granted, but for more than 800,000 young people, these things are only possible because of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood...

    DACA Fifth Anniversary Stories

    DACA Fifth Anniversary Stories

    Published Aug 14, 2017 Most of us want a productive, hopefully meaningful life in which we do work that benefits not only ourselves, but also others—that makes our communities stronger and healthier. But many young people who grew up in the U.S. are facing the kind...

    On Its Fifth Anniversary, Let’s Celebrate and #DefendDACA!

    On Its Fifth Anniversary, Let’s Celebrate and #DefendDACA!

    Published Aug 14, 2017

    Even Though There Are Legal Threats to DACA, There Is Reason to Be Hopeful

    Even Though There Are Legal Threats to DACA, There Is Reason to Be Hopeful

    Published Aug 4, 2017 Several legal threats to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have its beneficiaries and prospective applicants understandably worried, but it’s important to remember that there haven’t been any major changes to the...

    From Japanese-American Internment Camps to the Muslim Ban: The Terrible Consequences of Discriminatory Executive Orders

    From Japanese-American Internment Camps to the Muslim Ban: The Terrible Consequences of Discriminatory Executive Orders

    Published Jul 26, 2017 “An Executive Order put my family in a Concentration Camp.” That was the sign I carried as I joined thousands of other people at Los Angeles International Airport to protest the executive order of Jan. 27, 2017, that initiated the Trump...

    While We’re Watching the Trumpcare Train Wreck, Let’s Not Allow Our Dollars to Fund Trump’s Wall and Deportation Machine

    While We’re Watching the Trumpcare Train Wreck, Let’s Not Allow Our Dollars to Fund Trump’s Wall and Deportation Machine

    Jackie Vimo

    Published Jul 21, 2017 Trump needs our tax dollars to pay for his anti-immigrant agenda, and Congress must approve the federal budget. Now it is up to taxpayers to get the word out to their representatives in Congress that they refuse to fund hate and fear at the...

    What Does it Mean That the Supreme Court Asked for the Solicitor General’s View on the Arizona DACA Driver’s License Case?

    What Does it Mean That the Supreme Court Asked for the Solicitor General’s View on the Arizona DACA Driver’s License Case?

    Published Jul 17, 2017 On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court issued an invitation for the United States solicitor general to file a brief expressing the federal government’s view of our case Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act...

    House Spending Bill Rubber-stamps Trump Deportation Machine

    House Spending Bill Rubber-stamps Trump Deportation Machine

    Published Jul 12, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2017 CONTACT Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279, [email protected] House Spending Bill Rubber-stamps Trump Deportation Machine WASHINGTON – The United States House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on...

    Increasing the Number of Uninsured Would Hurt Everyone

    Increasing the Number of Uninsured Would Hurt Everyone

    Gabrielle Lessard

    Published Jul 6, 2017

    What Does the DAPA Rescission Mean and What Implications Does It Have for DACA?

    What Does the DAPA Rescission Mean and What Implications Does It Have for DACA?

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jun 23, 2017 On June 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly signed a memo rescinding the Obama administration’s November 2014 memorandum that announced a deferred action program for parents of citizens and lawful permanent...