Posts Tagged ‘Selvin Arevalo’
Community and Organizations Join to Stop Deportation of Maine Student
1:58 pm By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Immigration|Maine|Portland · 3 Comments
1 Sep 2010
Earlier this month, as part of the DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama series, we introduced you to Selvin Ovidio Arevalo, a Guatemalan student living in Maine who is facing immediate deportation.
There has been much talk by the right wing and some Republicans about returning to the “good ole American values rooted in Christianity”. While one could argue about what the values of this country really are and their history, what cannot be argued is that often the rhetoric against immigrants by those same people is anything but merciful. Selvin is a young man of faith and I wonder how many within the faith community, across party lines would step up for a young man like Selvin.
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DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama : Selvin Arevalo
1:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Education|Immigration|youth · 2 Comments
18 Aug 2010
Selvin has been in detention since April of this year following a traffic accident.
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn legal status, provided they graduate from U.S. high schools, have good moral character, and complete either two years of college or military service. With broader comprehensive immigration reform stuck in partisan gridlock, the time is now for the White House and Congress to step up and pass the DREAM Act!
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