Undocumented

February 19, 2019
Marlen Fernández

After years of activism led by undocumented youth, New York State has finally passed a version of the DREAM Act, which gives undocumented students access to financial aid. Yet in the broader struggle for immigrant rights, there is much work left to be done.

August 2, 2017
Alyshia Gálvez, Luis Saavedra, Melissa García Vélez, and Marlen Fernández

In this edition of NACLA Radio, four organizers discuss how the immigration reform movement can evolve to confront new challenges to DACA and beyond under Trump.

June 13, 2017
Alyshia Gálvez

Three cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team in New York City on the past, present, and future of undocumented youth organizing.

January 27, 2017
Eleanor J. Bader

Colleges across the U.S. are hunkering down to resist any attempts to deport undocumented students.

December 14, 2016
Aviva Chomsky

A growing coalition of worker and immigration activists are demanding that President Obama issue a general pardon for immigration status infractions. 

November 14, 2016

Beyond trying to fix the migrant detention regime with incremental reforms, migrant rights’ activists should demand the detention regime be scrapped all together.

September 21, 2016

The most comprehensive study on Mexican migration yet demonstrates how the past two plus decades of increasing border enforcement have led to the opposite of intended outcomes.

June 1, 2016
Pamela Voekel

At Georgia's Freedom University, undocumented students fight to make higher education a human right for all.

May 17, 2016
Luisa Laura Heredia

How DREAMer activism is breaking down the walls that divide the undocumented community.

April 22, 2014
Mexicans make up the highest number of underpaid workers in the world’s most powerful economy. Much of the story of Mexican migrants in the United States can be seen as a criminalization of poverty.

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