Scholarship For Undocumented Students Gets Bipartisan Praise

While it’s unfair to categorize TheDream.us as a convenient distraction for the CIA issue, the timing, have it be coincidential or intentional, is remarkable.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Former Washington Post CEO Don Graham announced on Tuesday the creation of a $25 million college scholarship fund for undocumented youth -- or “dreamers” -- as a token effort toward making college an affordable possibility for many, as Congress debates reforming the nation’s immigration laws. With the Congress deadlocked over if immigration reform

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Let The Electoral Hunger Games Begin

Taken as a whole, the issues likely to be of importance in 2014 do not appear to give Republicans a systematic advantage over Democrats.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

It may seem a tad early to begin pontificating about the 2014 Congressional elections as 2013 has only just concluded, but election season – like Christmas – seems to come earlier and earlier every year. So with that unfortunate fact in mind, what are the issues that are set to make news in November? First, and it may seem like going out on a limb

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Poll Finds Americans Agree It’s Time For Immigration Reform

Despite the American public largely ignoring party lines when it comes to immigration reform, lawmakers don’t appear to have put their differences aside.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

A new poll released on Monday found that about two-thirds of Americans favor creating a path to citizenship for the some 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. The polling information was released in a report from the Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, which examined how

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Hunger Strike Aims To Pressure Congress To Act On Immigration Reform

Immigration reform advocates want expedited legislation offering a path to citizenship, but House Republican leaders say nothing will happen until 2014.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Several dozen immigration reform advocates are currently fasting outside of their representatives offices across the U.S., hoping to pressure Congress to pass legislation that would create a path to citizenship for the some 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally. Last week several activists began a hunger strike in New York,

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Napolitano Dedicates 5M In Financial Aid to Illegal Immigrant College Students

Janet Napolitano is taking a much softer stance on undocumented immigrants as UC’s president than she did as the Homeland Security secretary.

Jo Erickson
By Jo Erickson

What a difference a few months can make. Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security and now the new President of the University of California system, is making a U-turn on immigration. This time she’s not deporting undocumented immigrants, but giving them money instead. The new UC president says she will dedicate $5 million of

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The Far Right’s Horrific Monster Bash

Who are the real vampires in America: the right-wing’s cartoonish portrayal of “illegal” immigrants, or the bloodsucking exploits of the corporate world?

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes

Some pretty ghoulish things have been taking place in our society, and in particular, in our nation’s capital. The terror of economic uncertainty – due in large part to the nightmarish games that are being played by the majority in our government’s House of horrors – continually grips us. We find ourselves in a real-life geopolitical H.G. Wellsian

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