Tag: Obama
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DACA students fearful after recent ICE raids
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that began in early February in Dallas, as well as other major cities in Texas, have raised concern among DACA students on campus. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an immigration policy introduced during the Obama administration that gives certain undocumented immigrants, who came to the United States as…
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Between the Lines: Have race issues gotten better or worse under Obama?
As the year rounds out and the nation gets closer and closer to November, the idea of living in a country where Barack Obama is not president is becoming more of a reality. For a large portion of young people, his rise to the highest office in the nation in 2008 coincided with their journeys into…
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Response to immigrant reform tepid
Immigrant rights groups believe President’s executive order weak, might not last President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform announced on Nov. 20 has received mixed reactions from members of the Hispanic community. His reforms are not historic or very different from what many presidents of either party have passed before him, said Cristina Garcia, deputy…
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Immigrant kids are not criminals
Between the influx of migrant children fleeing Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and Costa Rica making it to the semifinals in the world cup, Central America has been in the news a lot this summer. And as a Central American journalist born in America, it’s a paradoxical time to be alive. There’s so much misinformation…