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Can Breast Implants Cause Cancer?

The FDA released a report Wednesday regarding

Health Care Reform: VA Case Expedited; Other State Litigation Pending

A Virginia federal appeals court today announced

The Three Stooges, Cops and Robbers, and Public Misunderstanding of the Long-Term Effects of Repeated Head Trauma

Steve Gorelick is Professor in the Department

Philadelphia Abortion Arrests – What The Media Missed

[caption id="attachment_10549" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr. Kermit Gosnell,

West 47th Street: Four People You’ve Tried Not to Notice

Jennifer De Jesus is a student in

GOP’s Unfounded Health Reform Statistics

The repeal of the Affordable Care Act

Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth): A Review

One of the most powerful and influential

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn unveils her goals for food

Hannah Rosenzweig, MPH is a documentary filmmaker,

Health Media African Style

Martin Lucas is the Director of the

The defeat of the DREAM Act—a setback for all of us

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David M. Keepnews, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Dr. Keepnews, an expert on health care systems and health policy, currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, a quarterly journal.

Immigration policy remains a hot-button issue in the United States, with no apparent progress toward resolution, particularly on the status of undocumented immigrants. However, despite broadly divergent views on immigration policy, one might hope that a degree of national consensus could be achieved on the status of some undocumented immigrants. Common sense and a spirit of fairness should drive agreement that people who came to the U.S. as children—who generally had no say in their parents’ decisions on whether and how to come here—and who have led productive lives here should be entitled to a straightforward path to resolve their own legal status and achieve U.S. citizenship.

Unfortunately, common sense and fairness have not ruled the day on this issue so far. On December 18, the Senate failed to end a filibuster of the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act would have provided conditional status and a path to citizenship to young immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before age 16, who have been here for at least 5 years, and who completed at least two years of college or military service.