So is Jessica
Posted on 11/01/2017 6:54:52 AM PDT by Jagermonster
EQUALED Some 'dreamers' have been inspired to share their stories for the first time, viewing their voices as the most powerful tool for advocacy. Others stay quiet, out of a perception of growing hostility toward undocumented immigrants.
WILLIMANTIC, CONN.—Stefanny Amorim almost didn't appear in this article.
When Ms. Amorim, a sophomore at Eastern Connecticut State University, first opened the email from an advisor asking for undocumented students to speak to a reporter about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), she hesitated to volunteer. She’d avoided publicly exposing herself as undocumented in the past, cautioned by her mother and deterred by the arrest of a friend.
But in the current political moment, with the fate of DACA up in the air, she felt compelled to speak out.
“We have this time where Congress can really do something about DACA and hopefully, maybe, change something for the better,” explains Amorim, whose family moved to the United States from Brazil when she was 5 years old. “I feel like it’s really important to have my story out there so people can somewhat understand and sympathize with our cause.”
Throughout his campaign, President Trump repeatedly signaled that he would not revoke DACA, which granted temporary protection to some 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the US as children and allowed them to apply for work permits. On Sept. 5, in a reversal of that position, the president announced that he was rescinding the Obama-era policy – pending a six-month delay – giving those whose DACA status was set to expire before March one month to submit an application for renewal.
The announcement left Amorim and other DACA recipients to grapple with an old question for undocumented students – whether to engage in public activism and ...
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“Sometimes what’s hard for me is: What does support mean?” says William Lugo, associate professor of sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) and faculty advisor of the Freedom Club, an organization founded by DACA students on campus. “How do I support them in the best way that I can, as effectively as I can?
You can Start by Legally Claiming 100% Financial Liability, just like I DID when I got my Wife her Green Card.
End DACA. End all immigration.
If New Yorkers don’t like events like yesterday’s truck attack, they are the only ones empowered to do anything about it. I’d love to see them pick up pitch forks and torches. Given the way they vote... Schumer, Clinton, Gillabrand, Cuomo, DiBlasio, Bloomberg, ...I had assumed they don’t mind these things from time to time.
Let them bitch all they want ... back in old stinking Mehseeco or the dunghill -stan they came from: MAGA!
The irony—Obama stirs up a ****storm in the middle east and gives guns to narco-terorists, then starts importing angry muslims and Mexicans as fast as he can.
It’s almost as if it was planned. Almost.
Boo hoo Girl time
So is Jessica
Send her parents back to Brazil. She can accompany them.
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