By Kyle de Beausset: Today marks the completion of the second week of the DREAM Now series. I am sorry I was not able to get a letter out on Wednesday.  Too much travel and not enough sleep led me to come down with a soar throat and a fever on Tuesday.  Thankfully, I’m starting [...]

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By David Molina Note: A federal judge just blocked parts of Arizona’s SB 1070 this morning. You can read more about that here. SB 1070 was scheduled to go into effect as passed tomorrow. Tomorrow the most anti-immigrant state law will go into effect in Arizona. While the federal government via the Department of Justice [...]

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The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn [...]

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The following is an update on DREAM Act actions for this week by Kyle de Beausset of Citizen Orange. The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors [...]

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Earlier this week a dozen DREAM Activists dressed in caps and gowns and engaged in protest were arrested on Capitol Hill. All have since been released from custody. In recent weeks, those who advocate for the DREAM Act have been ramping up their advocacy with more organizing in Washington, D.C., including a sixties styled teach [...]

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For anyone who has been following the City of Bell saga that has been brewing the past week, this piece by Steve Lopez of the LA Times is a must read. (Note: I think until a housecleaning occurs we should call this municipality “City of Smell” since the corruption is so rotten.) Lopez even takes [...]

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Things have been picking up in the City of Bell with all of the news reports circulating about the excessive salaries for city officials and city council. However, one city council member, Lorenzo Velez, earns $310.62 every two weeks, while his other colleagues on the city council earn about $100,000 per year for the same [...]

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This past week the Latino community in Utah has been reeling from the infamous “brown list” that included the names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and some social security numbers of approximately 1,300 people who are suspected of being undocumented. This list even included the names of children and plus the due dates of some [...]

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