• Issue Briefs and Other Resources

• Students' Stories

• Immigrants' Rights Update Articles

• Emailed Updates

No federal requirement that school administrators inquire about students’ immigration status or report those who are undocumented, DHS confirms
(5/13/08, updated 8/6/08)

• Letter from DHS originally posted by The News & Observer (5/9/08)

• Letter from DHS to North Carolina attorney general (7/9/08)

Issue Briefs and Other Resources

DREAM Act: Basic Information (PDF)(10/07) (Updated 10/23/07)

Recent Developments in Undocumented College Student Issues (2005-Present [Fall 2007]), by Michael A. Olivas, Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance (IHELG), University of Houston Law Center.

Dreams Deferred: The Costs of Ignoring Undocumented Students.  Summary of forthcoming Immigration Policy Center report. (PDF) (9/19/07)

DREAM Act Summary (PDF) (4/06)

Basic Facts about In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrant Students (PDF) (4/06)

DREAM Act Reintroduced in Senate (11/21/05)

List of Organizations That Endorse the DREAM Act

Economic Benefits of the DREAM Act and the Student Adjustment Act (PDF) (2/05)

Floor Statement of DREAM Act Co-author Senator Richard J. Durbin (PDF) (7/22/04)

Chart of In-State Tuition Bills (PDF)(11/5/03)

Further Demographic Information Relating to the DREAM Act (PDF) (10/21/03)

TABLE: State Proposed or Enacted Legislation Regarding Immigrant Access to Higher Education (4/8/03) (PDF)

Students' Stories

Testimony of DREAM students before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, May 18, 2007.  Read their testimony (click on the students' names):

• Marie Nazareth Gonzalez
  Westminster College, Class of 2009

• Martine Mwanj Kalaw
  Hamilton College, Class of 2003
  The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Class of 2004

• Tam Tran
  University of California, Los Angeles, Class of 2006

Or watch the hearing (on RealPlayer).

"Just One Thing Missing," the story of a college student "with good grades, an excellent work ethic, but no possible way to get a legal job.  She's lived in the U.S. since she was little, but [is undocumented].  Most of her friends and teachers don't even know."  As reported by Douglas McGray, a fellow at the New America Foundation, on the radio program "This American Life" (program "329: Nice Work if You Can Get It," Apr. 6, 2007).  (Click on the above link; then click on "Full Episode"; then fast-forward to minute 46:34.)

Immigrants' Rights Update Articles (back to IRU index)

Emailed Updates

Martinez v. Regents of the University of California (and AB 540)
California Supreme Court Grants Petition for Review of Court of Appeal's Decision (12/23/08)

Martinez v. Regents of the University of California (and AB 540)
California Court Ruling on In-State Tuition Is Not the Last Word (9/17/08)

No federal requirement that school administrators inquire about students’ immigration status or report those who are undocumented, DHS confirms (5/13/08)

• Senate vote on S. 2205

• White House statement opposing DREAM Act