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Report- Meeting with Key Senatorial Leadership

The result and what we took from this meeting is that we need to unite.  We should be ready to fight hard when DREAM is put on the floor for a vote.  I cant wait for that day to come, when DREAM passes there is going to be a combination of laughs and tears.     

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See for Yourself, Feel for yourself

Call me an emotional person but I can't deny the fact that every time I wake up and I remember people I met along the trail, I cry. It's the constant thought that their pain still continues and our plight has not been addressed by our President and Congress. It simply a form of anguish to be in uncertainty for my future and those of millions I care about. I am particularly tired of the hot potato game they play with our lives, specially the lives of undocumented youth and children in this country. The back and forth between the administration and congress, democrats and republicans, is unacceptable. Our community worked hard in the process of electing the first African American president with the hopes that somehow he would understand our plight. I am honestly tired of the back and forth between parties as to who has the responsibility over our lives. Our last meeting with Ms. Valerie Jarrett was not any different. Our president decided once again to not deliver a sensible first step towards a more humane and just immigration system. Is it wrong for us to ask for our peers to not get deported and for families to stay united? This is all we asked!

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The Time is NOW!

A friend of mine from the youth immigrant movement in this country made the bold and honest statement earlier this month that “our government seems to have forgotten that they are playing politics with our very lives.” I think that this problem goes far beyond just our state and federal government, but I can agree, at least, that these are manipulative political games that I'm simply not willing to play. We don't have a minute to waste, remembering daily how we have already wasted a decade, and our communities cannot go without a victory for yet another year. We need for every major immigrant rights organization to invest time and resources on pushing the Hispanic Caucus to pass the DREAM Act and AgJobs this year as well as demanding president Obama to stop deportations.

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HOLD SENATOR LeMeiux ACCOUNTABLE

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Arizona: History will not be forgotten, truth will prevail

June 1st, 2010 | Phoenix, AZ

It has become clear that the oppressive system wants to maintain people of color as second class "citizens" in this society and rid the US of all those who it deems undesirable. My convictions on America's contradictions solidify as my eyes bear witness to the injustice, hate, and racism behind Arizona's SB1070 and national programs like 287(g). These are pitiful excuses for justice. Do not remain fooled, SB1070 and 287(g) discriminate. This nation unfaithfully upholds the values and principles of equality, unity, and justice for all so long as these prototypical systems of oppression are maintained. So long as Juan Crow reigns these lands, it shall remain juxtapositioned to the dark history of Jim Crow, since both have perpetuated the mutual oppression of  people of color. 

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