Today, Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) announced that Reyna Montoya, CEO & Founder, Aliento Education Fund

We were featured in the national news outlet, The Guardian. The article highlights Aliento and our Founder + CEO, Reyna Montoya about her experiences with her involvement with the immigrant rights movement, coping with trauma from her father's deportation proceedings, and the creation of Aliento!

We were featured in the national news outlet, The Guardian. The article highlights Aliento and our Founder + CEO, Reyna Montoya about her experiences with her involvement with the immigrant rights movement, coping with trauma from her father's deportation proceedings, and the creation of Aliento!

We are devastated that immigration was not included as part of the budget. DACA remains in legal limbo as Federal courts decide its faith. This means that Dreamers are at risk of losing everything and facing potential deportation.

Aliento is one of eight global organizations awarded the Adolescent Mental Health Grant by Zoom Cares.

Aliento was awarded this multi-year grant to continue to support our Cultiva program grounded in bringing our arts & healing workshops, mental health initiatives, and support for undocumented and mixed-status families in the height of the pandemic. Over the next two years, we hope to reach 2500-3000 students through our programs.

We've been hearing a lot over the Budget Reconciliation and immigration. Senate Majority Leader Schumer has released the framework for the $3.5 trillion budget bill. Senate Democrats added over $100 Billion for Immigration including legalization for Dreamers, TPS holders, Farmworkers, and essential workers!

On Friday, July 16, 2021 Texas Federal Judge Hanen put on hold the DACA program, DHS may accept new DACA applications but it cannot approve new DACA applications. Judge Hanen has put the lives of thousands of Dreamers on hold. As of now, DACA Renewals will still be accepted and processed due to the injunctions from Batalla Vidal, which enables USCIS to accept and adjudicate a DACA application by anyone who has previously been accepted into the DACA program.

On June 15, 2021. The Senate Judiciary Committee began oral hearings over H.R.6 Dream & Promise Act. H.R.6 would allow nearly 650,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, as well as the 1.6 million eligible undocumented youth brought to America as children, a pathway to citizenship in the U.S.

On May 5th, 2021, the Arizona House of Representatives moved forward with SCR1044 (32-29 vote count). SCR1044 will provide in-state tuition to all students who graduate from a high school in Arizona, regardless of immigration status.

More than 120 business, faith and civic leaders signed a letter urging the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, Russell "Rusty" Bowers, to bring SCR 1044 to the floor.

The death of Adam Toledo, a 13 year old boy in the streets of Chicago at the hands of police is heartbreaking. Our heart and thoughts are with Adam’s family and friends.

Aliento in partnership with 193 leading brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders today announced the first-ever Mental Health Action Day, to be held on Thursday, May 20 during Mental Health Awareness Month.

Hello, my name is Darian Benitez Sanchez, I am 18 years old and I am an undocumented student at Brophy College Prep. I was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and came to the United States at the age of four, in 2007.

On March 30th, 2021, the Texas Court with Judge Hanen held oral arguments on the future of DACA program.

HR6 would allow nearly 650,000 active Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, as well as the 1.6 million eligible undocumented youth brought to America as children, a pathway to citizenship in the U.S.

On March 4, 2021 SCR 1044 passed the Senate 17 to 13 in the 55th Arizona Legislative Session, which will provide in-state tuition to all students who graduate from a high school in Arizona, regardless of immigration status.

EducatedAF is a campaign demanding access to in-state tuition for all Arizona high school graduates, regardless of immigration status.

On February 16, 2021 in a 6 (yes) to 2 (no) vote SCR 1044 passed the Arizona Senate Education Committee in the 55th Arizona Legislative Session. This bill will provide in-state tuition to all students who graduate from a high school in Arizona, regardless of immigration status.

On February 1, 2021 Republican State Sen. Paul Boyer (R. LD20) introduced SCR 1044 in the 55th Arizona Legislative Session, which will provide in-state tuition to all students who graduate from a high school in Arizona, regardless of immigration status.