Tag: DACA

The federal government under President Joe Biden has been accepting new applications for DACA protections. That must now stop.

"This is a victory for our courageous plaintiffs, DACA-eligible youth across the country, and all of our communities."

We have to be willing to embrace new ways of thinking about creating healthy communities, in the same way we’ve changed our habits during the current pandemic.

"We took our power to the streets, the hallways of Congress, to the highest court in the land and we won."

The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

New York now joins 18 other states who have passed various bills over the years.

If the root cause of this problem, the law-breaking companies, is not addressed then the problem will continue to plague America.

In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?

Trump’s policy plans will end up hurting many people’s jobs, even though one of the biggest planks in his campaign platform was his promise to make jobs “great again” in America.

These DACA young people are our neighbors, our colleagues, and our classmates.