Posted on 09/05/2017 4:24:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WILLIMANTIC -- Dozens of Eastern Connecticut State University students gathered on campus Tuesday to rally against President Trump’s announcement to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrives, or DACA.
Students held signs, chanted and gave speeches. Some even put tape over their mouths. There are 104 DACA students at ECSU and roughly 10,000 Dreamers in Connecticut.
“It just feels like I’m being betrayed by my own country because this is my home,” said Johana Vazquez, an ESCU student whose family came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was two. “Immigrants have never been here to take anyone’s place. We’ve only been here to contribute. We’re all immigrants.”
Another ECSU student, Daniel Castillo, said his family has been in the U.S. for 18 years since leaving Mexico to find a better life. “We just want to be students,” said Castillo. “We just want to contribute. We want to study, get our education, and now everything’s up in the air. We’re not sure what could happen.”
Students expressed feelings of anger, fear and uncertainty, while also adding that they are grateful for the support of their school and classmates.
ECSU President Elsa Nuñez made an impassioned plea to lawmakers at the rally. “This is not fair,” said Nunez through tears. “It’s not right. It’s not decent. And it’s not American.”
Nuñez released a statement earlier Tuesday, saying in part, “They [DACA students] are Americans, as American as the students they sit next to in class, as American as their younger siblings born here in this country.”
The students said they will take their anger and channel it into productively fighting for their cause. “We’re united,” said Vazquez. “We’re going to go through this together. We’re not alone.”
Where can I return my diploma
That’s you Alma Mater?
Yes.
And masters degree from Oklahoma City University.
Video showing them on the ballfield...my first dorm is in the background.
Artillery, huh?
“Dozens” ... chanted ... held signs ... taped mouths.
yeah, that’ll un-rollback DACA for sure ...
““This is not fair,” said Nunez through tears.”
But it was “fair” to cut in front of the legals.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
get yourself arrested !!!
Then
DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT
NO AMNESTY— Get them out of here if they violate our statutes!! Any republicrat that votes foe Amnesty is political toast. I dont see how the anti trump republic rats survive anyway GET OUT!!
It ought to be interesting to see what legislation comes forth from Turban, Gramnesty, McStain and the Flake to move the Dreamers to the front of the line.
one bright spot, maybe McCain will croak soon.
Terrible to say, but the sooner he’s gone the better.
Dozens
I’m afraid that McCain will be like Robert “Sheets” Byrd, they will carry him out of the Senate tits up.
Why do the crummy b@stards always seem to last the longest?
104 daca students and only dozens protested?
““This is not fair,” said Nunez through tears.”
You didn’t come into the country “fairly” you moron
>There are 104 DACA students at ECSU and roughly 10,000 Dreamers in Connecticut.
And just how many tax dollars are paying for their free ride and lunch? The criminal authorities will not inform we the taxpayer.
The majority of white males and honest people continue to float these freeloaders.
I have wondered the same thing.
Have any of these so called “dreamers” ever bothered to actually fill out the paperwork and go through the Legal Process since granted this Temporary Reprieve YEARS AGO!!!
Yep, that’s what I thought NOBODY!
Directional school
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