No LGBTQ Exclusion in Immigration Reform

Copyright, Julio Salgado

The Washington Dream Act Coalition is pushing for LGBTQ inclusion in Immigration Reform. 

As the bill advances for a Judiciary Committee vote next week, immigrant rights activists like the Washington Dream Act Coalition will push for an LGBTQ inclusion in any path to citizenship. Read NY Times article HERE. 

It is up to all of us to stand up and share why it's important to make sure ALL families have a path to citizenship with dignity and respect. 

Whether you support marriage equality or not, real lives are at stake; families are at risk of being separated. 

This issue hits close to home. For Otts Bolisay and his partner LGBTQ inclusion would mean family unity:

"We'll be leaving the country again without any clear way to return unless laws or other things change."  

-Otts Bolisay and Ken Thompson- 

Read the full story HERE

The Dream is Now Screening and Panel Discussion

Join us on Friday, April 19th for a special screening of The DREAM is NOW, a powerful documentary about dreamers. 

Friday, April 19 
5:30 pm– 7:00 pm 

Samuel E. Kelly Etninc Cultural Center
University of Washington 
3931 Brooklyn Avenue NE 
Seattle, WA 98195 


The Washington DREAM Act Coalition is hosting a screening of The DREAM is NOW on Friday, April 19th at the Ethnic Clutural Center, University of Washington. We are joining forces with groups throughout the United States for a National Day of Action to raise awareness. 

The film follows the lives of 4 undocumented students in America as they deal with our broken immigration system. DREAMers have put a face on this issue and this thought-provoking film was created to help all understand the need for Congress to act to fix the broken immigration system and provide a path to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented Americans who need to be a part of our economic and cultural future. 

 Davis Guggenheim, Director, is the Oscar winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman." “The Dream is Now” tells the stories of undocumented youth and their families who are desperate to earn their citizenship in the only country they've ever called home. Laurene Powell Jobs, an incredibly strong advocate for DREAMers and Comprehensive Immigration Reform, has provided financial backing for this remarkable project. She has been a tireless advocate for undocumented students through College Track, a nonprofit group she co-founded to help under-served high school students access college. 

Our event will be followed by a panel discussion of DREAMers. We invite you to attend this special screening. 

For further information, please contact Krista Jensen at 425-445-3414. Email contact is web_juggler@yahoo.com

Entry Denied: The American Dream vs. Current U.S. Immigration Laws

The complex issues surrounding the topic of immigration take an interactive and apprehensive approach in the immigration survey “Entry Denied.”

The survey allows the participant to answer a series of questions in regards to the immigration journey of a relative. The first questions are based on the region of origin and era of the immigrant.

The journey continues with the reason as to why the selected relative came to America. In my case, my Mexican Father who emigrated in the 1980’s, did so to seek a better life. The next question is about the plan to pursue the “good life.” As far as his abilities, he was just a good worker. And voila, under today’s laws, my father would have no such legal method of entering America and would have to resort to the “Green Card Lottery.”

Also known as the “Diversity Lottery,” this is “currently the only option for most prospective immigrants today.” But if the country has “sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years,” then you might as well abandon the American Dream.

Visit www.entrydenied.org and take the survey yourself to see how your fate as an immigrant would measure up against the current United States immigration policies.

BEND THE ARC, a Jewish Partnership for Justice is the driving organization behind the survey “Entry Denied,” geared towards shedding light on the importance of an immigration reform and a reasonable path to citizenship.

Photo credit: entrydenied.org