July 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
Scarlette Kim woke up on the morning of June 15 to an email announcing a policy she had long been waiting for: The Obama administration would stop deporting immigrants like her who came to the United States illegally as young children. "I was ecstatic," said Kim, who will be a junior...
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June 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
California’s clogged immigration courts are likely to receive relief under an Obama administration plan to avoid deporting young illegal immigrants brought into the country as children. The court in Los Angeles has a backlog of nearly 52,000 deportation cases, the nation’s...
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July 27, 2011, 12:05 AM
In the same week that California opened up some financial aid for illegal immigrants, a new report finds that many college graduates who entered the country illegally ended up with the same low-skill jobs as their parents, despite dreams of bettering their lives. The study, "Learning to...
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June 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
The federal DREAM Act failed in December, but similar legislation is gaining momentum in states, including California. Under a bill working its way through the state Legislature, some undocumented college students could get access to Cal Grants, institutional aid and fee waivers at...
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September 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
If the Senate had approved the defense authorization bill this week which included the long-debated DREAM Act, more than 500,000 young immigrants who are in California without legal authorization would have been eligible to apply for legal status, at least on a "conditional" basis....
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