{"id":245,"date":"2011-02-24T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:20:59","slug":"her-dream-crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2011\/02\/24\/her-dream-crushed\/","title":{"rendered":"Her DREAM Crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/isabel-2728_opt-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Provost Fred Kniss &amp; Castillo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Isabel Castillo \u201907 <\/strong>of Harrisonburg., Va., was interviewed on  Oct. 14, 2010, by Bob Edwards of NPR\u2019s The Bob Edwards Show. Edwards  also interviewed <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/dd983\">Deanna Durham<\/a>, EMU assistant professor of social work  and other friends of Castillo in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The  interviewees spoke about the importance of Congressional passage of the  DREAM Act, to provide paths for Castillo and other undocumented young  people to emerge from the shadows and earn their US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo and her many supporters inside and outside of EMU were  devastated when the DREAM Act failed by only five votes to get the  necessary 60 votes to advance it in the Senate. The DREAM Act would have  permitted the sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants to qualify  for citizenship after meeting rigorous tests: They would have been  brought into the US before age 16 by parents who were undocumented;  lived in the US for at least five years; have no criminal record; and  would have served at least two years in the military or completed two  years of college. After meeting these qualifications, they would wait  six years to apply for citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Castillo \u201907 of Harrisonburg., Va., was interviewed on Oct. 14, 2010, by Bob Edwards of NPR\u2019s The Bob Edwards Show. Edwards also interviewed Deanna Durham, EMU assistant professor of social work and other friends of Castillo in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The interviewees spoke about the importance of Congressional passage of the DREAM Act, to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[53,78,148],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallwinter-2010-11","category-magazine","tag-dream-act","tag-isabel-castillo","tag-music","issues-fallwinter-2010-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}