What is the DREAM Act:
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act is bipartisan legislation which will help young people who were brought to the United States years ago as undocumented immigrant children, and who have since grown up here, stayed in school, and kept out of trouble, an opportunity to enlist in the military or go to college and have a path to citizenship which they otherwise would not have without this legislation.  Citizenship would be awarded after a mandatory two years in higher education or military service.

Post your questions on the economy and vote on submissions from others. The President will answer some of the most popular on Thursday.
UPDATE: The online town hall is at 11:30 AM Thursday, the voting will close at 9:30 AM.

Will you do your part? Here’s your chance. Join us for the next Hispanic Quality of Life community forum. We will have free dinner for everyone & the Capital Area Food Bank will giving out free bags of groceries (no questions asked).  Read on for complete details.

We are proud to report that President Obama has brought comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) back to the table, as he discussed in a Hispanic Caucus meeting and a California town hall meeting earlier this week.

But as CIR gains positive attention now, it’s more important than ever, to be aware of the false claims being made against CIR and begin informing ourselves on the truth.

Review the false claims, hypocrisies and more here.
 

So as Obama navigates the ongoing AIG fallout and sells a budget plan that foresees sweeping health care and energy reform, Obama's schedule today raises another question: Can he handle immigration?

In their new book, “Hispanic Heresy: What is the Impact of America’s Largest Population of Immigrants?” two Texas Tech professors and one alum make arguments for common immigration misconceptions.  From their impact on the economy to whether or not immigrants should learn English, their theories search for the opportunities immigration brings to the U.S. WITHIN the so-called problems and challenges.  

Read the February issue of SV Top 5 now!

Check out the February 2009 issue of the Student Voices monthly online newsletter, “SV Top 5,” and see if your content was featured this month.  Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) advocates are working hard and quickly to realize CIR by fall 2009.  And fortunately, their message is spreading quickly, and the ever-expanding network of supporters is uniting to make real change.

In light of justice and equality for all minorities, it's vital we stay abreast of issues not only affecting Latinos but other social groups. Most often, we are divided by color yet unified by the problems we face! Listen and read about the latest State of the Black Union symposium. How do the issues which Latinos and African-Americans overlap? Which approaches are taken toward solving or dealing with them? SPEAK UP! 

Attorney General Eric Holder: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

A federal law enforcement partnership program, which enables local law enforcement to act as immigration agents, and was originally designed to identify and deport only immigrants with serious felonies, will be examined for effectiveness in a congressional hearing scheduled for today.

Since the program has been implemented, many inconsistencies have been reported as well as unclear objectives, protocol, and procedures for the program.