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Youth Leadership

Victory with the Flat Rate Tuition Bill

For the past few years we-immigrants and allies-have been fighting for equal access to higher education for all students regardless of their immigration status. And during the last legislative session we made history! Although we still have to keep fighting for the MN Dream Act, we won a huge victory with the passage of the Flat-Rate Tuition Bill.

Undocumented students have won the right to attend 22 Minnesota colleges for in-state tuition.

See a list of In state schools that give all students flat rate tuition regardless of doument status.

Contact Youth Leadership Organizers

Martha Ockenfels-Martinez: Martha@immigrantfreedomnetwork.org

(Sylvia Gonzalez-Castro)

One response to “Youth Leadership”

31 01 2008: Ignacio (05:14:49) :

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! This is a great achievement and you all should feel very proud. The future college students can now hope for a brighter and educated future thanks to your efforts. Hopefully your efforts won’t stop there and will continue advocating for the Federal DREAM Act to help it come true. Keep up the good work.

Mission:

The Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network is a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to fix the broken immigration system in this country. Our strategies include grass-roots community organizing, media justice work, immigrant leadership development, bipartisan legislative work, popular education, civic engagement and using art as a catalyst for social change. The MIFN is also the leading advocacy organization behind the Mn Dream Act, a community effort to gain in-state tuition for all students, regardless of their citizenship status. Although we are a young organization, our creative and successful organizing projects along with the dynamic growth of the immigrant rights movement have positioned us in the heart of a burgeoning movement.

Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network