Supporting Undocumented Students

• Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) is a local, multicultural social justice organization that fights for immigrant, student, and worker's rights. YES is the youth arm of Voces de la Frontera.

• My (Un)documented Life is a blog that provides up-to-date information and resources for undocumented immigrants.

• The mission of Immigrants Rising is to empower DREAMers to achieve educational and career goals through personal, institutional, and policy transformation. They envision an America where all young people can pursue and complete an education with confidence and without constraint.

• The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. With offices in Chicago, Indiana, and Washington, D.C., NIJC provides direct legal services to and advocates for these populations through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education.

• The National Immigration Law Center’s mission is to defend and advance the rights and opportunities of low-income immigrants and their family members.

• As a national immigrant youth-led organization, the mission of the United We Dream Network is to achieve equal access to higher education for all people, regardless of immigration status.

Remember the Dreamers is working to focus Congress on finding a legislative solution for Dreamers and DACA recipients, who are living in legal limbo while awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the DACA program.

• The context of having a parent, sibling or relative without documentation, or not being documented oneself, is a unique stressor that cannot solely be understood as generic stress or trauma. This brief guide is designed to provide an overview of detention, deportation, and other immigration status-related stress and its effect on children and families, as well as suggestions for how school personnel can support them.

• The Department of Education has published this 2015 Guide for Supporting Undocumented Youth in secondary and post-secondary settings.

• The Immigrant Students National Position Paper is a 2013 study of the situation of DREAMers at the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the institutional practices that affect those students.

• United We Dream: A Portrait of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Recipients is a 2015 report on the experiences of DACA recipients in the three years following the program’s inception.

• The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the Badger State

The American Psychological Association has produced a video entitled "Undocumented Americans," in which three DREAMers share their stories of how they are fighting hard to achieve their piece of the American dream. This video calls for valuing the contributions of and caring for all members of our society, even those without documentation.