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by Laura Wides-Muñoz


  11Ibid.

  12Alexandra Gratereaux, “Meet the DREAM Act Activist Who Cornered Mitt Romney at NYC Fundraiser,” Fox News, January 18, 2012. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/18/defying-mitt-romney-lucy-allain-fights-for-dreamers.html.

  13Laura Wides-Munoz, “Rubio: GOP Must Make Immigration a Priority,” Beverly Hills Immigration Law, January 30, 2012. https://beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.blogspot.com/2012/01/rubio-gop-must-make-immigration.html.

  14Ibid.

  15“impreMedia—Latino Decisions Tracking Poll Results—December 2011.” http://www.latinodecisions.com/files/3013/4697/3823/Dec_2011_Tracking.pdf.

  16“American Dreamers,” directed by Jenniffer Castillo and Saray Deiseil, Indigo Productions, 2015. https://www.facebook.com/AmericanDREAMersfilm.

  17Alex Aldana, “CAD Walk 2012: From the Desert of Nevada, Demanding Justice for Trayvon Martin,” America’s Voice blog, April 9, 2012. http://americasvoice.org/blog/cad-walk-2012-from-the-desert-of-nevada-demanding-justice-for-trayvon/.

  18U.S. Census, “The Hispanic Population: 2010,” May 2011. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf.

  19“American Dreamers,” directed by Jenniffer Castillo and Saray Deiseil.

  20Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Immigration,” The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, June 15, 2012. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/remarks-president-immigration.

  21Muzaffar Chishti and Faye Hipsman, “Key Factors, Unresolved Issues in New Deferred Action Program for Immigrant Youth Will Determine Its Success,” Migration Policy Institute, August 16, 2012. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/key-factors-unresolved-issues-new-deferred-action-program-immigrant-youth-will-determine-its.

  22Obama, “Remarks by the President on Immigration.”

  23Laura Wides-Munoz and Paul Wiseman, “Backlash Stirs Against Foreign Worker Visas,” USA Today, July 6, 2014. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busi ness/2014/07/06/backlash-stirs-in-us-against-foreign-worker-visas/12266783/.

  CHAPTER 10: AFTER DACA

  1“About the ‘No Papers, No Fear’ Ride for Justice.” http://nopapersnofear.org/.

  2Seth Motel and Eileen Patten, “Latinos in the 2012 Election: New Mexico,” Pew Research Center, October 1, 2012. http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/10/01/latinos-inthe-2012-election-new-mexico/.

  3Emily Deruy, “DREAMer Erika Andiola Will Work for Arizona Congresswoman,” ABC News, January 16, 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/dreamer-erika-andiola-work-arizona-congresswoman/story?id=18228718.

  4Dan Nakaso, “Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ Wife, Gives First Interview Since Husband’s Death,” Huffington Post, April 12, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/laurene-powell-jobs_n_3071822.html.

  5AFL-CIO, “2013 Deliberated Resolutions.” https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/con ventions/resolutions-2013.

  6Frank Newport, “Americans Widely Support Immigration Reform Proposals,” Gallup News, February 5, 2013. http://www.gallup.com/poll/160307/americans-wide ly-support-immigration-reform-proposals.aspx.

  CHAPTER 11: THE NEXT BATTLE

  1Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, 113th Congress, 2013. https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/744/actions.

  2Alicia A. Caldwell, “Asylum Requests from Immigrants on the Rise in US” (corrected version), San Diego Union-Tribune, July 17, 2013. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-correction-asylum-requests-story-2013jul17-story.html.

  389+ About. http://www.89plus.com/about/.

  4Elizabeth Llorente, “They’re Back, en Masse: Dozens of ‘Dreamers’ Turn Themselves in at California Border,” FOX News, March 10, 2014. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/10/to-protest-us-immigration-laws-more-than-150-people-in-mexicoplan-to-approach.html.

  5“Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration Courts, FY2011–2016,” Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, 2016. http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/re ports/447/include/denialrates.html.

  6Llorente, “They’re Back, en Masse.”

  7Cristina Constantini and Jorge Rivas, “Deported Dreamers Fleeing Violence Fight to Come Home,” Splinter, March 10, 2014. http://fusion.net/deported-dreamers-flee ing-violence-fight-to-come-home-1793841002.

  8Kate Morrissey, “ACLU: End Private Contract for Otay Mesa Immigrant Detention,” San Diego Union-Tribune, December 2, 2016. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-aclu-ice-20161202-story.html.

  9Rocio, produced and directed by Dario Guerrero-Meneses, Carson, CA, 2016.

  10Ibid.

  CHAPTER 12: NEW ALLIANCES

  1U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, “Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department,” March 4, 2015. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/department-of-justice-report-on-the-ferguson-mo-police-department/1435/.

  2Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Immigration—Chicago, IL,” White House Office of the Press Secretary, November 25, 2014. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/25/remarks-president-immigration-chicago-il.

  3Jean Chung, “Felony Disenfranchisement: A Primer,” The Sentencing Project, January 2017. www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Felony-Disen franchisement-Primer.pdf.

  4Mendez v. Westminster School District, 64 F.Supp. 544 (S.D. Cal. 1946), aff’d, 161 F. 2d 774 (9th Cir., 1947). See “Mendez v. Westminster Case,” October 3, 2007. http://mendezwestminstercase.blogspot.com/2007/08/mendez-v-westminster-case.html.

  5Mendez v. Westminster School District was nearly forgotten by the broader public until Obama awarded the lead plaintiff’s daughter the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Nicholas Dauphine, “Hispanics Are Forgotten in Civil Rights History,” Education Week, May 13, 2014. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/05/14/31dau phine.h33.html.

  6Laura Wides-Munoz and Peter Orsi, “Visa Granted to Harvard Junior Who Took Dying Mother to Mexico,” Boston Globe, October 14, 2014. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/10/14/harvard-junior-took-dying-mom-mexico-now-stuck/TDpoYfoHUat29KyToGpU6J/story.html.

  7Dan Roberts, “Two Families Watched Obama’s Immigration Speech Together—but the President’s Plan Only Helps One,” The Guardian, November 21, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/21/two-families-obama-immigration-speech.

  8Mike Blake, “U.S. Politics Takes Center Stage at Latin Grammys,” Reuters, November 20, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-latingrammys/u-s-politicstakes-center-stage-at-latin-grammys-idUSKCNoJ506Q20141121.

  9Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Chapter 1: State Unauthorized Immigrant Populations,” Pew Research Center, November 18, 2014. http://www.pewhispanic.org/2014/11/18/chapter-1-state-unauthorized-immigrant-populations/.

  10Barack Obama, “President Obama Remarks in Nevada on Immigration,” C-SPAN, November 21, 2014. https://www.c-span.org/video/?322888-1/president-obama-remarks-nevada-immigration.

  11“Obama Addresses Hecklers During Chicago Speech,” NBC Chicago, November 25, 2014. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Obama-Addresses-Hecklers-During-Chicago-Speech-283908031.html.

  12Obama, “President Obama Remarks in Nevada on Immigration,” C-Span, November 24, 2014, 00:06:52. https://www.c-span.org/video/?322888-1/president-obama-re marks-nevada-immigration.

  13Michael Kagan, “Immigration Law’s Looming Fourth Amendment Problem,” The Georgetown Law Journal, (Vol. 104:125) 2015, p. 126. http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1936&context=facpub.

  14“Immigration Detainers Legal Update,” Immigrant Legal Resource Center, July 2017. https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ice_detainer_cases_july_2017.pdf.

  15Ibid.

  16Eric Gibble, “Bernie Sanders’ Immigration Policy Track Record,” American Imigration Council:Immigration Impact, May 1, 2015. http://immigrationimpact.com/2015/05/01/bernie-sanders-immigration-policy-track-record/

  17Ken Thomas, “Hilla
ry Clinton Backs Obama Immigration Move,” Lexington Herald-Leader, November 21, 2014. http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-govern ment/article44525238.html.

  18Michael McCaul, “McCaul: President’s Actions Tonight Threaten Our Democracy,” press release, November 20, 2014. https://mccaul.house.gov/media-center/press-re leases/mccaul-president-s-actions-tonight-threaten-our-democracy.

  19Lindsey Graham, “Graham Opposes Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration,” press release, November 21, 2014. https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=170F274A-B8E6-59FA-9726-AC42F5FEC90D.

  20Molly Hennessy-Fiske, “What Happened to the President’s Immigration Programs?,” Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2015. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-immigration-executive-action-20151019-story.html.

  21Mark Noferi, “When Reagan and GHW Bush Took Bold Executive Action on Immigration,” The Hill, October 2, 2014. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/219463-when-reagan-and-ghw-bush-took-bold-executive-action-on.

  22U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, “Interim Relief for Certain Foreign Academic Students Adversely Affected by Hurricane Katrina,” press release, November 25, 2005. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Humanitarian/Special%20Situa tions/Previous%20Special%20Situations%20By%20Topic/faq-interim-student-re lief-hurricane-katrina.pdf.

  23Judge Andrew Hanen, opinion, State of Texas, et al. v. United States of America, et al., 87 F. 3d. 733, 743 (5th Cir., 2015). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1668197-hanen-opinion.html, 41.

  24Mila Koumpilova, “Hopes Fade for Would-Be Citizens: A Year After Obama’s Action on Immigration, Millions Still in Limbo,” Star Tribune, November 28, 2015. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-436071392.html.

  25“Full Text: Donald Trump Announces a Presidential Bid,” Washington Post, June 16, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/16/full-text-donald-trump-announces-a-presidential-bid/?utm_term=.62ec5014974c

  26Greg Sargent, “Opinion: Is This a ‘Muslim Ban’? Look at the History—and at Trump’s Own Words,” Washington Post, January 31, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/31/is-this-a-muslim-ban-look-at-the-history-and-attrumps-own-words/?utm_term=.a7e4a86c066f.

  27Matt Vespa, “Clinton 2014: Children of Illegal Immigrants Have to Go Back as Soon as Possible,” September 9, 2017. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/matt vespa/2017/09/09/clinton-2014-children-of-illegal-aliens-have-to-go-back-as-soon-as-possible-n2379046.

  28Jeh Johnson, “Statement by Secretary Jeh C. Johnson on Southwest Border Security,” DHS Press Office, January 4, 2016. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/01/04/state ment-secretary-jeh-c-johnson-southwest-border-security.

  CHAPTER 13: GRADUATION

  1Anna Bank, “The Fall and Rise of Trinity Washington University,” Georgetown Voice, March 27, 2008. http://georgetownvoice.com/2008/03/27/the-fall-and-rise-of-trini ty-washington-university/.

  2Jena Johnson, “Trump Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Muslims Entering the United States,’” Washington Post, December 7, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-the-united-states/?utm_term=.e8048497d7ca.

  3NAACP, “Criminal Justice Fact Sheet,” 2017. http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/.

  4https://mijente.net/.

  CHAPTER 14: HERE TO STAY

  1Tina Nguyen, “Trump Contradicts D.H.S., Says Expanded Deportations Are a ‘Military Operation’ Now,” Vanity Fair, February 23, 2017. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/trump-deportation-military-operation.

  2Maria Sacchetti, “Trump Is Deporting Fewer Immigrants than Obama, Including Criminals,” Washington Post, August 10, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/trump-is-deporting-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-including-criminals/2017/08/10/d8fa72e4-7e1d-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.550684736b85.

  3Tal Kopan, “The next DACA? Trump administration turns to another class of immigrants,” CNN, September 11, 2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/politics/next-daca-tps-temporary-protected-status/index.html.

  4Yamiche Alcindor, “Liberal Activists Join Forces Against a Common Foe: Trump,” New York Times, February 14, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/poli tics/protesters-resist-trump.html?_r=1.

  5“United We Dream Stands in Loving Solidarity with the Protectors of Our Water & Land,” United We Dream press release, January 24, 2017. https://unitedwedream.org/press-releases/united-we-dream-stands-in-loving-solidarity-with-the-protec tors-of-our-water-land/.

  6Nolan D. McCaskill, “Trump Says He Will Treat Dreamers ‘with Heart,” Politico, February 16, 2017. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-press-conference-dreamers-heart-235103.

  7Adam Tamburin, “In Reversal, Tennessee AG Pulls Support from Effort to End DACA,” Tennessean, September 1, 2017. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/pol itics/2017/09/01/reversal-tennessee-ag-pulls-support-effort-end-daca/626221001/.

  INDEX

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  Abbott, Greg, 281, 283

  Abdollahi, Mohammad, x, 132, 133,

  140–42, 210, 252, 336n12

  AFL-CIO, xii, 31, 32n, 229–33, 251–52, 261, 306

  Aguiar, Maggie, 43

  Alabama, 32, 201

  See also Sessions, Jeff

  Alcaraz, Raúl, 134

  Aldana, Alex, x, 146–48, 197, 207–10, 223, 253–54, 258, 317

  border-crossing event and asylum application, 258–62, 317

  Campaign for an American DREAM walk, 208, 209, 210, 212, 213, 216

  DACA and, 220

  same-sex marriage of, 317–18

  Aldana, Carlos, x, 258

  Aldana, Laura, 146, 147

  Allain, Lucia, 204

  Almendárez Coello, Renán, 32, 61

  American Immigration Lawyers

  Association, 252

  American Legislative Exchange Council, 133, 148

  Americans for Immigrant Justice, xii, xiii.

  See also Florida Immigrant Advocacy Organization

  America’s Voice, xii, xiv, 117, 136, 136n, 137, 210, 215, 222

  amnesty, 13, 70, 167, 223, 235, 248, 280, 281

  Bush and, 13, 282

  Reagan and (1986), 66, 223, 282

  Andiola, Erika, x, 115, 225, 226, 229, 251

  Sanders campaign and, 288, 306, 321

  Andrade, Eliana, ix, 2, 3, 5, 26, 27, 30, 54, 188, 189, 192, 193, 302–4

  Andrade, Mario, ix, 2, 3, 4, 17, 26–30, 54, 72–73, 177, 233, 302–3, 310, 318

  arrest and detention, 185–95, 229–30

  DAPA and, 277, 279

  immigration hearings, 231, 233–34, 254–55

  Andrade-Ayala, Claudia, ix, 29, 54, 188, 193, 194, 207, 233, 301, 303, 318

  Andrade-Ayala, Hareth, ix, 163, 255–56

  as activist, 54–56, 72, 73, 148–49, 177–79, 228–29, 234–36, 308–9, 319

  AFL-CIO and, 229, 230, 231–33, 309

  Blacc video of, 234, 309

  Bridge Project and, 234, 235, 256

  college and, 116–17, 177, 178, 184, 256

  college graduation, 295, 300–304

  DACA and, 219, 318, 320–21

  DAPA and, 276

  DREAM Act and, 162–63, 165, 169

  DREAMers of Virginia, 184–85, 228

  Dream Summer, 178–79, 219, 229

  father’s deportation, fighting against, 185–95, 228–31, 233, 254–55

  friend, Antonella, 115–17, 148, 163

  growing up in Virginia, 5, 25–30, 53–54, 115–17, 148, 177–79

  immigration status, 72, 116, 165

  leaves Bolivia, 1–2, 3–5, 162–63

  life after graduation, 318–19

  parents arrive in
the US, 27–28

  poem, 232–33

  presidential race (2016) and, 288

  Andrade-Ayala, Haziel, ix, 2, 3–5, 27, 30, 189, 193–95, 301, 303–4, 318, 320

  Angle, Sharron, 143–44

  Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 92

  Arizona, 65–69, 80

  Arpaio and, 68–69, 225

  “Bring Them Home” campaign in, 251

  Kolbe as Congressman from, 65–67

  Latinos in, 143–44

  Phoenix march, 131–32

  Reid vs. Angle race, 143–44

  Sanders campaign and, 306

  San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, 66–67

  SB 1070, 122, 129–33, 201, 225

  Sinema election, 225

  in-state tuition ended in, 67

  Tucson Five, 134–35

  “undocumented and unafraid” in, 115

  US-Mexican border and, 66

  Arpaio, Joe, 68, 132, 134, 225, 315

  Arreola, Maria, 225–26

  Artiga, Daníel, 297, 299

  Ashcroft, John, 13, 19

  Associated Press, 254

  asylum, 33, 93–95

  based on LGBTQ status, 260

  border-crossing events and, 258–61

  difficulty of getting, 259

  mass requests for, 251–52

  unaccompanied minors and, 254

  women from Chiapas, 261–62

  Avendaño, Ana, 229, 231–32, 234, 303

  Ayala, Betty, ix, 2–4, 17, 26, 28–30, 54, 177, 187–89, 194, 195, 250, 310, 318

  Dream Project and, 179, 228

  DAPA and, 277–78, 279, 284

  Hareth’s graduation and, 301–3

  Bannon, Steve, 314

  Barrientos, Walter, x, 35, 56, 65, 69, 118, 313

  Bennet, Michael, 236

  Bennett, Bob, 168

  Berman, Howard, xii, 12, 31, 161

  Bernstein, Josh, xiii, 7–8, 11, 13–14, 34–36, 40, 69, 72, 158, 184, 293, 319

  Bhargava, Deepak, xiii, 38–39, 130

  Blacc, Aloe, 234, 309

  Black Lives Matter, 272, 273, 291, 306, 316

  Black Panthers, 273

  Blancaflor, Rico, 88

  Blunt, Roy, 155–56

  Boehner, John, xii, 248, 256, 277, 281

 

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