On June 28, 2011, Assistant Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senator Dick Durbin chaired the first US Senate Hearing on the DREAM Act before the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration. The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) provides conditional permanent residency to certain undocumented individuals of good moral character who graduate from US… Continue reading DREAM Act 2011
Month: June 2011
“A Better Life” 2011
June 24, 2011 was the release date of the movie “A Better Life”. The film was directed by Chris Weitz and is based on a story by Roger L. Simon. The poignant drama centers on a father trying to make a life in America for himself and his son. The father is a Mexican immigrant… Continue reading “A Better Life” 2011
“My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” 2011
On June 22, 2011, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jose Antonio Vargas revealed his story, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” in the New York Times. Filipino American Vargas had immigrated to the US when he was 12 years old. In his essay, Vargas revealed that his grandparents had not told him that his green card… Continue reading “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” 2011
Ethnic Studies Banned in Arizona in 2010 — Surprised? Nope!
On June 16, 2011, Tucson’s ethnic studies program was declared illegal and anti-American. In 2010, the Arizona state legislature signed a law that bans classes from kindergarten to 12th grade that, among other grave errors, are designed primarily for a single ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity. The Tucson school district was threatened with an end… Continue reading Ethnic Studies Banned in Arizona in 2010 — Surprised? Nope!
Dr. Severo Ochoa, Nobel Prize Winner and USPS Honoree
June 16, 2011 was the first day of issue for the US postal stamp honoring Dr. Severo Ochoa. In 1959, Ochoa won the Nobel Prize in physiology for his discovery of the process to make RNA (ribonucleic acid) in a test tube. Ochoa was born in Luarca, Spain. He emigrated during the Spanish Civil War,… Continue reading Dr. Severo Ochoa, Nobel Prize Winner and USPS Honoree
Lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070
On June 8, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released the news that the Obama Administration planned to bring a lawsuit against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070. Among other provisions, the law decreed it a misdemeanor crime for an “alien human being” to be in Arizona without carrying the required documents. (Hmm …… Continue reading Lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070