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CEO Funding Scholarships for Undocumented Immigrants

By Samantha Leal | 10/18/2012 - 09:54 | 0 Comments

Latino CEO Ric Elias has donated a million dollars to launch a non-profit organization called Golden Door Scholars, which will offer full scholarships to undocumented immigrants to attend a college in North Carolina. The college that will support the program has yet to be decided, but Elias is in talks with five North Carolina colleges...

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Court Ruling: Alabama Public Schools Not Allowed to Check Immigration Status of Students

By Samantha Leal | 08/21/2012 - 09:32 | 0 Comments

A section of Alabama's immigration law that ordered public schools to check citizenship status of all new students was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court on Monday, according to Fox News Latino. But while the court ruled that...

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New College for Undocumented Students to Open in California

By Samantha Leal | 08/01/2012 - 09:55 | 0 Comments

A new project called National Dream University, a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Labor Research and Education and the National Labor College, will offer online courses for college credit to young immigrant and labor rights activists who want to attend college....