Sentences with phrase «undocumented youth»

She said financial aid for undocumented youth would benefit everyone, since college graduates make more taxable income than those who have not graduated.

Assist undocumented youth as they navigate the immigration process by helping them prepare the appropriate documents and supporting their attendance at immigration - related appointments.

Program that puts off child deportations thrives in Nevada Las Vegas Review Journal 8/11/14 [Assistant Professor] Roberto Gonzales, a leading expert on undocumented youth in the United States, agrees that state context affects the program's impact.

On Tuesday, just after President Donald Trump ordered the government to end an Obama - era program that protected undocumented youth from deportation, Silicon Valley leaders condemned his decision and showed their support for those affected.

«Roberto Gonzales has established himself as one of the leading experts on undocumented youth in this country,» said Dean James Ryan.

She said that the electors each got paid $ 15 for carrying out their duties, noting that the funds can assist the organization in financing its rapid response work plan, a number of planned community town halls, maintaining Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — an executive order President Barack Obama signed that protected undocumented youth from deportation — and more generally protecting undocumented immigrants from getting deported.

Students, labor leaders, and citizens» groups are calling on the State Senate to pass the New York DREAM Act, which would give undocumented youth access to state financial aid like the Tuition Assistance Program.

The president - elect has indicated he hopes to remove at least two million foreign nationals residing within U.S. borders, and possibly abrogate President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order that has shielded undocumented youth from immigration enforcement action.

Schneiderman has sued Trump over his executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, his attempts to repeal former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youth brought to the United States in their early childhood, among other issues.

«It helped hundreds of thousands of young people feel as though they belonged,» said Roberto Gonzales, a Harvard education professor who runs the largest study of undocumented youth in the United States.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, on June 16, cast a deciding vote against an amendment that sought to stop the military from enlisting undocumented youth.

The NYSYLC bills itself as «the first undocumented youth led, membership led, organization that empowers immigrant youth to drop the fear and challenge the broken immigration system through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and a safe space for self - expression.»

«Earlier this month, I called Roberto Gonzales, a professor of education at Harvard and the author of «Lives in Limbo,» a book based on more than a decade of research into undocumented youth in America.

Children face barriers because of their parents» undocumented status, often related to poverty, fears of deportation, and more, while undocumented youth themselves face increasing barriers to social mobility as they enter adolescence and hope to obtain driver's licenses, afterschool work, and financial aid for college.

Gonzales is the author of the 2015 book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, which explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with less educated peers, and the failures of our country's current system to provide for their integration and success.

For the roughly 600,000 undocumented youth under 18; the nearly 6 million U.S. citizen children living in mixed - status families; and the 9,000 educators who are DACA recipients working in schools around the country, the Trump administration's immigration policies have been especially devastating.

-- A guide for educators, school support staff, and service providers who work with undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children currently living in the United States: Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff

On Tuesday, President Trump and his administration announced that they would end the DACA program which allows undocumented youth brought to the United States as children to work and receive protection from deportation.

With our schools» focus on public policy, and on preparing all students for college, we view the Trump administration's decision to end the DACA program for undocumented youth as bad policy.

These contributions can only be magnified if we give undocumented youth the same opportunities to receive a college education as their peers.»

She called for the preservation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order President Barack Obama signed that shielded undocumented youth from deportation, and for the United States to accept a larger number of refugees from Syria.

Of the estimated 65,000 undocumented youth who do graduate high school every year, what then?

New York's Dream Act seeks to provide state financial aid to undocumented youth in pursuit of a college degree.

There has been a renewed push in Congress to pass the DREAM Act, which would offer a path to citizenship for undocumented youth.

Three protesters were arrested outside U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Manhattan office where demonstrators were trying to hold the senator's feet to the fire over a spending bill intrinsically linked to an effort to restore protections for undocumented youth.

«It is past time for Senator Schumer to use his political power in Congress as the minority leader and finally bring home a clean #DreamActNow for undocumented youth, without compromising the future of their families by funding a racist wall and increased border security measures that only tear families apart.»

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with 15 attorneys general throughout the country, filed a lawsuit against President Trump this afternoon over what they allege is the «discriminatory animus» of his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youths.

The pursuit of higher education is an almost unattainable aspiration for undocumented youths.

Gillibrand, a rumored 2020 presidential candidate, is among senators who opposed the bipartisan budget deal proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell because it did not include protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for undocumented youth.

«What Roberto says in his research and what many know intuitively is that undocumented youth have terrible prospects if they don't graduate high school or only graduate high school, and that they have much better prospects if they can get through that transition to college,» Willemsen says.

This cohort of undocumented children and youth is fairly new, explains Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the Ed School, who, as one of the nation's leading experts on undocumented youth and young adults, has been studying this group for 23 years.

In 2001, the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act was introduced in Congress to offer legal residency to undocumented youth — now often referred to as DREAMers — who arrived before the age of 16 and met other requirements.

Nationally, 40 percent of undocumented adults ages 18 to 24 did not complete high school, according to Gonzales» current longitudinal study of about 2,700 undocumented youth, the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP), which is investigating how DACA affects this group.

«Lives in Limbo»: Undocumented Youth's Limited Opportunities NBC News, 12/15/15» «If you are not in a program for the gifted or talented, or a magnate program, you are in larger classes and while your family has all these things going on with their status, you don't have the opportunity to build trusting relationships with adults,» says [Assistant Professor Roberto] Gonzales.

Washington D.C. native Rachel Freeman's desire to learn more about community college, particularly access initiatives for immigrants and undocumented youth, brought her to Appian Way.

This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children currently living in the United States.

A small group of members has been meeting to discuss the School to Deportation Pipeline, how immigrant and undocumented youth in schools can face immigration consequences such as detention and deportation when law enforcement are allowed in and around schools or involved in school discipline related matters.

Undocumented Youth Are Here Through No Fault of Their Own.

This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children currently living in the United States.

Where trans women, undocumented youth, little black boys playing alone in parks each make it home safe at night.