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DREAM Activists open to Rubio’s ‘conservative-Republican alternative’

By | 04.05.12 | 4:47 pm

CNN.com contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. writes Thursday, “I call the GOP approach to the DREAM Act something else: A common sense solution. It could break a stalemate and improve millions of lives. And it could only be opposed for ugly partisan reasons.” That sentiment is stirring up debate among longtime DREAM Act supporters.

President Barack Obama in Jacksonville (Pic via Wikimedia Commons)

Immigrant advocates continue to evaluate White House immigration gathering

By | 04.21.11 | 9:52 am

Wade Henderson and Janet Murguia, presidents of two national organizations present at the White House meeting held this Tuesday to discuss immigration reform, are highlighting the president’s support for the DREAM Act. Just last week, though, a leading advocate for the passage of the DREAM Act received a notice of deportation.

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