DREAM Act

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• Thompson: Give this DREAMer a chance to fully contribute to our society

  New York , there's something that our state legislators can do right now to stand up for immigrants: Pass the New York State DREAM Act .I'm a 17-year-old senior at Valley Stream South High School. I am an undocumented student, also referred to as a DREAMer   Read more »

• Advocates push for student aid for immigrants

  Island immigrant advocates went to Albany Tuesday to urge their state senators to approve the Dream Act , which would allow immigrants without proper documents to receive state education aid.But their chances look bleak even though the measure is moving through   Read more »

Around the web

• Outcome of Immigration Bill in Albany Uncertain

  Island Republican, said in a statement. Assemblyman David DiPietro, a Republican from western New York, called the state Dream Act “preposterous.” “Albany should not be doling out entitlement programs to lawbreakers, including those willfully violating federal 5/24/13 from The New York Times Read more »

• NYT: Jobs family more charitable than previously believed

  educational organizations, and has recently been more publicly involved in immigration policy -- particularly the DREAM Act -- as well as nutrition and conservation. In the NYT piece, she described her and Jobs' approach to charitable giving as being "really 5/24/13 from MacNN Read more »

• Sources: Dream Act Not A Priority For Gov This Year

  in Albany this year and, as a result, some major legislation priorities may fall by the wayside including the state's Dream Act, which remains a top priority for Latino lawmakers. NY1's Zack Fink filed the following report. To view our videos, you need to   from NY1 Read more »

• Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: NRA seeks to recall Colorado lawmaker who passed gun safety laws

  Democrats to pass a number of progressive pieces of legislation, including same-day voter registration, a state-level DREAM Act, civil unions, and, most notably, a trio of new gun safety measures, among them expanded background checks and magazine size limits.   from Swing State Project Read more »

• 3 members of Staten Island's Assembly delegation vote against DREAM Act

  said Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn). "I later worked full time to obtain my MBA at night. The DREAM Act is a misguided proposal and a slap in the face to every hardworking, taxpaying American citizen and legal immigrant who, like   from SILive.com Read more »