Tag: Immigrants: Page 20

Latinx

Georgia Regents Approve Restrictions for Undocumented Students

The state Board of Regents voted Wednesday to tighten policies governing undocumented immigrant applicants to Georgia colleges and universities.

October 13, 2010

Latinx

Latino Higher Education Group Launches College-completion Campaign

Excelencia in Education’s Ensuring America’s Future by Increasing Latino College Completion campaign seeks to align itself with the Obama Administration’s goal of making the United States the most college-educated nation in the world by 2020.

September 8, 2010

Latinx

After Voluntary Deportation, Arizona State Grad Returns as U.S. Resident

Oscar Vazquez knew he was taking a risk when he returned to Mexico for the first time in his adult life, starting what could have been a years-long odyssey to earn legal U.S. residency.

September 2, 2010

Latinx

Poll: Hispanic Immigrants Hold High Hopes for Life in U.S.

Marlen Lopez cleans offices in Maryland to pay her bills and hasn’t seen her 8-year-old son in three years after leaving him behind in El Salvador. Yet she is happy with her job and confident her son will one day graduate from college in the U.S.

August 17, 2010

African-American

Poll: Identity, Blending in Important to Hispanics

An Associated Press-Univision poll shows that a significant percentage of Hispanics believe it is important to hold on to their unique identity even as they work to blend into American society.

August 4, 2010

Home

Webb Calls for Ending Diversity Programs

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., has called for ending government-run diversity programs in a Wall Street Journal column, saying they have hurt the cause of racial harmony.

July 26, 2010

Latinx

Poll: U.S. Hispanics Mix Hopes, Strains

Hispanics have been hit disproportionately hard by the economic slump. Forty-five percent say they or a family member have lost a job since last September, with similar numbers or more expressing deep worries about becoming unemployed, paying bills and saving for college.

July 20, 2010

Students

Undocumented Students Hold D.C. ‘Teach-In’ to Push DREAM Act

A coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California on Wednesday launched a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the “teach-ins” of the 1960s, to encourage a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants through college enrollment.

July 15, 2010

African-American

Experts Say Feds vs. State Conflict in Arizona Rooted in U.S. Founding

The federal lawsuit against Arizona’s tough new immigration law focuses heavily on a question that has been in the spotlight repeatedly the past decade and dates back to the Founding Fathers.

July 7, 2010

Latinx

Georgia Colleges Working To Verify Students’ Status

Georgia’s 35 colleges and universities are working to carry out a mandate from their governing body and verify the citizenship status of nearly 316,000 students by mid-August.

June 20, 2010

Students

Harvard Student Says He Faces Deportation From U.S.

An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said last week.

June 14, 2010

Students

Student Immigrants Use Civil Rights-era Strategies

Students fighting laws that target undocumented immigrants are taking a page from the civil rights era, adopting tactics and gathering praise from the generation of demonstrators who marched in the streets and sat at segregated lunch counters.

June 2, 2010