3 - Civility and the Undocumented Alien
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
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In January 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knocked on the door of the Phoenix home of Erika Andiola and arrested her mother and brother. Andiola, cofounder of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition, is a prominent activist for the DREAM Act, a federal bill to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Andiola had been arrested for civil disobedience outside Senator John McCain’s Phoenix office, as well as at his office in the U.S. Capitol.
Featured on the June 2012 cover of Time magazine, along with Jose Antonio Vargas and other undocumented immigrants under the headline We Are Americans – Just Not Legally, Andiola was also one of four DREAMers profiled in Davis Guggenheim’s film advocating passage of the DREAM Act, The Dream Is Now. And Andiola, along with two others, had sued the Senate with the help of Common Cause, challenging the Senate filibuster as unconstitutional, after the DREAM Act was blocked by a filibuster in December 2010.
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- Civility, Legality, and Justice in America , pp. 69 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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