Tag: Immigrants: Page 19

Students

U.S. Banker to Match Immigrants’ College Savings

The group promises that if families save $1,500 by the time a child graduates from high school, it will match that amount.

February 21, 2011

Latinx

Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children

To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.

February 17, 2011

Students

South Carolina College Students Rally for Higher Education

Students from three South Carolina universities urged lawmakers to be careful when they trim the budget, saying deep cuts to higher education will hurt the state’s economic future.

February 16, 2011

Latinx

Target of Virginia Immigrant Bills Includes Undocumented Students

The Virginia House of Delegates has advanced a slate of anti-illegal immigrant bills, including one that would require Virginia’s public colleges to bar undocumented students from enrolling.

February 8, 2011

Latinx

Does the DREAM Act Have a Future?

The White House and supporters aren’t yet ready to sing a requiem despite major obstacles.

January 27, 2011

African-American

Haitian-Americans Mark 1st Year Since Earthquake

Haitian-American leaders and others are using Wednesday’s anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake to implore the Obama administration to welcome tens of thousands of Haitians who were promised visas but remain in the crippled Caribbean country on waiting lists.

January 11, 2011

Latinx

DREAM Act Blocked in Senate

Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.

December 19, 2010

Latinx

With Dream Act Shelved, Immigrants Look to 2012

The undocumented immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012.

December 15, 2010

Home

Democrats Delay Action on DREAM Act

The Senate moved Thursday to delay a politically charged showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally, putting off but probably not preventing the measure’s demise.

December 9, 2010

Latinx

Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship

As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.

December 5, 2010

Latinx

Lone Latina Senator in Mass. Defends Tuition Plan

Massachusetts’ only Latina state senator defended a state proposal last week to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and accused critics of the plan of spreading “fiction.”

November 21, 2010

Latinx

Court Upholds In-state Tuition for Some Immigrants

The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it ruled that undocumented immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities.

November 15, 2010