Where tax payers’ money is really going–Detaining the undocumented
Did you know that Los Angeles County alone pays $26 millions dollars a year to detain undocumented immigrants? My question is where does the state get all this money […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
How Old Is That? Old Enough: Age and New Immigration Policies
With this year’s presidential election looming in the near future, consistently hot-topics have become even hotter. This includes, of course, immigration. Both candidates can talk the talk, but current president […]
Florida: Issuing out-of-state tuition for children of undocumented immigrants.
Wendy Ruiz is American-born and has grown up in Florida her entire life. She graduated high school in 2010 and shortly afterward applied to Florida International University. However, a […]
Julián Castro Democratic National Convention Speech
At the 2012 The Democratic National Convention the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Julián Castro, delivered a keynote address to the democratic delegates documenting his own family’s migration journey from Mexico […]
Local courts cutting back on interpreters to save money–or to make it?
A few months ago taxpayers in the United Kingdom learned that the government and a private firm were trying to save money by providing sub-standard translation services for immigrants going […]
The 2012 Democratic National Convention, Immigration, and the American Dream
The very first undocumented immigrant to address the nation, Benita Veliz, spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), imploring America to support Obama’s immigration reform. Veliz, an advocate of The Dream […]
