New Orleans By far the best news from the USA while I was travelling in India, was (finally!) the executive order by President Obama to break through the quarrelsome, partisan logjams for immigrants and provide some relief for the young people trapped by circumstance and parental decisions in the country illegally, but trying to build a …
Tag: DREAM Act
Was there a DREAM versus Secure Communities Immigration Deal?
Buenos Aires I want to share how exciting it was to be with the organizing committee in the Isidor Casanova district of the mega-slum, La Matanza, yesterday as they planned their first major campaign to clean up the fouled, garbage laden dump that their river has become, but that will have to wait until …
Building a Movement to Win the DREAM
New Orleans As part of Paladin Partners, Drummond Pike and I spent an invigorating and productive day meeting in Washington with Carlos Saavadra and Gaby Pacheco, two of the principle organizers behind the courageous and expectation-challenging push for the DREAM Act, which culminated in a near miss in Congress late in 2010. It is fair …