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.

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

In case you missed it, the Associated Press recently covered our request for a meeting with Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.).  We are asking Sen. Brown to meet with us before April 17.

Harvard College Act on a Dream has been trying to meet with Sen. Brown since he was first elected at the beginning of the semester.  We were told that his office was a mess the first couple of months, but we were finally asked to fax our meeting request to his office.  We sent the fax on March 5, 2010. 

After not getting a commitment to a meeting for over a month, we were forced to take our meeting request public.  We
joined forces with the Student
Immigrant Movement to set up an
online petition which already has over 100 signatures (please sign
it if you haven’t done so, yet).  The online petition resulted in
coverage from the AP, and now our request is all over the web.  We were
happy to hear through the AP that his office has received our meeting
request and will shortly ask for more information from us.

Still, it’s going to take a lot more than an AP article and a hundred petition signatures to secure a meeting with Brown.  Here are some things you can do to help:

Originally posted on Citizen Orange. I missed a whole day of Netroots Nation pouring my heart out into this post. Please digg it, tweet it, stumble it, etc.

Another day another DREAM.  Over the last few days, I have been working hard with Herta Llusho and her brother Lirjon to support their campaign to defer Herta’s deportation on August 19, 2009. If you haven’t read her story yet, I recommend that you do. Please, take the following actions in support of Herta and help her stay in the only country she knows as her home:

My name is Herta Llusho, I am 19 years old, and I writing this because I am about to be deported. I was born in Albania and was brought to the United States when I was 11 years old. With the help and support of my family, I have struggled through more than seven years of legal proceedings to find a way to stay in this country legally. Despite our best efforts, on August 19, I will be removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from the only place I know as my home. I will be sent back to a country that has become a foreign place to me. I don’t even speak Albanian well anymore. My only hope of staying here is for as many people as possible to ask DHS to delay my deportation until the DREAM Act is passed.