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For the past month, American students have been headed back to school. You’ve seen their proud parents post “Back to School” and “First Day in the Dorms” photos on Facebook. Today we talk about how you can join several school-related fights for justice.
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In Tuesday’s edition, we asked you to take action to support the DREAMers and push back against the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. There’s still much work to be done. Latino lawmakers at the federal and state levels are fighting a DACA repeal, as are 80 legal aid groups and nonprofits, as the Los Angeles Times reports. Resistance organizations (that includes you, MCW-ers!) were pivotal in the July Trumpcare defeat, and now we’re carrying this momentum into resisting a DACA repeal.
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The president is expected to announce today that he will be ending an Obama-era program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors to receive renewable two-year deferrals from deportation. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is only open to those who arrived before the age of 16, and who are currently in school, have graduated high school, or have served in the US military.
President Trump has signaled that he intends to end the program in six months, which gives Congress a chance to act and save the “DREAMers.” Today we talk about getting Congress to act and provide a path to citizenship for these Americans.